Sylvia Browne Goes Down
I realize that facts don't seem to get in the way of most religious nuts, new agers, or leftists, but here's a fine "fuck you" to the followers of that quack "psychic" Sylvia Browne.
I haven't made a comment on the Sago Mine disaster, because there really hasn't been much to say. The miners died of suffocation, and their families were put through a living hell because of the incompetence of the mining company and false reports that 11 of the miners were alive, when in fact all but one were dead.
On the night that it had falsely been reported that the miners (all but one) were alive, Sylvia Browne was on the Coast-to-Coast radio show. This show was originally founded by radio pioneer Art Bell. I used to love listening to the show due to the entertainment value. Many people have criticized Bell for promoting such bullshit as ghosts, UFOs, and psychics, but it is my firm belief that he was (and is) simply an entertainer who didn't believe the shit that was pushed by his guests. There are few things more amusing than listening to some goober from Indiana talking about how he's created a time machine with electromagnets. The show is now hosted by George Noory, who (to me) seems a little too close to the psychics and other bullshit artists and sounds like a "true believer."
On Jan 3rd, while Sylvia Browne was on the show (when the whole world had been told by the press that the miners were miraculously found alive) George Noory asked her about the miners. She said "I always knew they'd be found alive." She further stated (in the way that most phonies and frauds do) that she hates so-called "psychics" who lie about their abilities and wait until news reports come out before they make their claims (although this is exactly what Ms. Browne was doing!).
Later in the broadcast, the sad news came across that in fact all but one of the miners were DEAD, and that the earlier reports were wrong. Noory never pressed Sylvia on her previous statements, but when he asked her if she thought the new reports were correct, she said "I just can't see any of them being alive." She then quickly stated that she always felt that they were gone, but didn't want to ruin it for everyone else (in other words, she was RIGHT about them being dead, but she said the opposite, hoping she was wrong). BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Of course, this bullshit artist (and others like her) won't lose a single fan from this incident. They'll probably say that the carbon monoxide in the mine clouded the midi-clorians and disturbed all psychic activity in that area. But the 1% of us who don't believe in fairies or the Easter Bunny can once again have a good laugh at the expense of others who are less fortunate (and less intelligent) than we are. After all, Sylvia Browne is laughing all the way to the bank. There's no way she can see her fans as anything other than "marks," and quite frankly I don't blame her.
You might remember Sylvia Browne from such films as "I'm a chickenshit fraud of a psychic who has avoided taking James Randi's test as agreed over four years ago...."
© by Michael Cooper 2006