Psychic leeches exploit others misery

James Randi shows how these leeches prey on others misfortune. What is worse:

• Thinking your missing child may be dead
• Being told, incorrectly, he is by a Psychic

Psychics don’t speak with the dead, they can’t even tell who is dead!

ANOTHER FABULOUS FAILURE - James Randi's Swift - January 19, 2007
Back in February, 2003, “psychics” Sylvia Browne and James Van Praagh were consulted by the parents of missing 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck – Pam and Craig Akers. That young man just recently turned up – very much alive and well, in rather sharp disagreement with the prognostications of the humbug artists...

ANOTHER FABULOUS FAILURE - James Randi's Swift - January 19, 2007
Back in February, 2003, “psychics” Sylvia Browne and James Van Praagh were consulted by the parents of missing 11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck – Pam and Craig Akers. That young man just recently turned up – very much alive and well, in rather sharp disagreement with the prognostications of the humbug artists...



UPDATE 23–01–2007:  Phil Plait, has a wonderful post on Bad Astronomy with an Anderson Cooper spot about the case including comment from James Randi.

Bad Astronomy Blog » Sylvia Brown is a big giant evil fraud
But you knew that, right? Sylvia Brown claims to be a psychic, but she is actually a fraud, and a horrifyingly evil one at that… (cont)

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UPDATE 23–01–2007:  Phil Plait, has a wonderful post on Bad Astronomy with an Anderson Cooper spot about the case including comment from James Randi.

Phil PlaitBad Astronomy

Bad Astronomy Blog » Sylvia Brown is a big giant evil fraud
But you knew that, right? Sylvia Brown claims to be a psychic, but she is actually a fraud, and a horrifyingly evil one at that… (cont)

Bad Astronomy Blog » Sylvia Brown is a big giant evil fraud


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