Awhile ago, I posted a short commentary on Sylvia Browne’s 2007 predictions, complete with a healthy dose of skepticism (based on her previous mistakes).
With the unexpected and welcome return of kidnapped teen Shawn Hornbeck, Ms Browne is once again in trouble for making wildly incorrect predictions. As the video below will show, Sylvia told Hornbeck’s parents on an episode of The Montel Williams Show (2003) that their son was killed after the abduction.
While Browne was able to correctly identify the abductor’s first name, Michael J. Devlin is far removed from Sylvia’s description of a “dark skinned Hispanicâ€. Thanks to YouTube, it will be hard to Ms Browne to say otherwise. The Hornbeck family alleges that Sylvia Browne offered to help them find their son’s body for the low, low price of $700/hour.
Sensing the obvious need for damage control, Sylvia’s business manager issued a statement in her defence:
Sylvia has NEVER charged a fee to any law enforcement person, agency or any individual for her work on a missing person’s case and has worked on hundreds of such cases over the years with positive results … She cannot possibly be 100% correct in each and every one of her predictions. She has a during a career of over 50 years helped literally tens of thousands of people
-Statement from Sylvia Browne’s Business Manager
This being the case, why does she feel she can charge ANYONE $700/hour for information that may be false? Does she refund the money if her predictions turn out to be wrong?
In Sylvia’s partial defence, the Hornbeck family also consulted fellow psychic James Van Praagh, who delivered an equally inaccurate prediction. Perhaps it’s not just Sylvia, but the profitable psychic “industry†that needs to be scrutinized.
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Probably have better luck asking Tom Cruise and his Church of Sciencefiction having come from another planet.
I am lead to believe they talk to aliens who know everything and have answers for all.
Heh, no doubt. People need to believe…
I don’t understand why people can’t be more openminded. My one friend is a christian and she refuses to believe, so I told her you believe in god yet you’ve never seen him. I love Sylvia Browne and I definitely don’t think she is a fake. Hopefully one day I will meet her I would definitely have alot of questions to ask her.
Heather… your not openminded yourself if you “definitely dont think shes a fake” If you do not have one foot in each camp you cannot se the whole picture. True openminded is to invite every opinion in and admit that this could very well be the truth until hard cold facts are presented and no doubt remain. You do not have a openmind that she could be a fraud. In your mind shes not. A true openminded person do not belive in anything unknown because if you do belive then you do not belive the oppossite. You cannot possible know what she is as the only person to know is her self. You can argue that it is proven by fact that she can “read true” but as long as others argue the oppossite with real facts of their own, then none of them is facts. Its just speculation. To be openminded is to never get an answer and never beliver one thing but to accept that anything could be true. If something is a fact and proven beound doubt then theres nothing to be openminded about as theres is only one thing theres the truth.