Getting It So Hideously Wrong

The events of 9/11 are, collectively taken, one of those watershed moments in life. I think that every American will always remember what they were doing the moment they first heard the news, or watched what was going on on TV, especially when the towers came down.

You'd think that something of this level of monumentality (in many senses of the world) would leave as solid an impact on the spirit world -- if there is such a thing -- as it did on the physical world.

Either it didn't, or Sylvia Browne has absolutely no access to the spirit world whatsoever.

She was a regular guest on the Montel Williams show, and on May 24, 2006, she gave this reading to the bereaved girlfriend of a missing person. And boy, did she get it wrong.

This is a heartbreaking example of the kind of perfidy that she commits by pretending to be able to speak to people's (dead) loved ones. It is just awful, and it is just one of many examples of her doing this sort of thing to people that you can see at Stopsylvia.com: Robert Lancaster's collection of articles about Sylvia Browne.

Now, you might say that Robert's work is a big collection of confirmation bias, or otherwise to accuse him of only posting articles that portray Browne in a negative light. But note how he is constantly asking someone--anyone--to send him information on which he can follow up that confirms that she's actually able to do what she claims to do, and I think if you read the articles also, he's pretty generous about what he allows her for "hits" when he's trying to figure out her accuracy. He's even posted correspondence, unedited, from Browne's PR person, Linda Rossi.

Do you have proof that Browne is in any way what she claims to be? Robert's under the weather now, but if you go to the James Randi Educational Foundation Forum, you can post about it. Worried that they'll tear you to shreds over there? Well, yeah, there will be some jerks. But if you have information and you can actually back it up with evidence, you'll find more support than you might have expected there, too.