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93 Responses to “How Well Did Sylvia Browne Do With Her 2007 Predictions?”

1. Mister Zippy
   January 22nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm

   

   Raltegravir had a good chance to be a success.

2. Smug Baldy
   January 22nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm

   

   Indeed it does – and this was widely known in 2006, which provides enough “reasonable foreknowledge” to not count any event surrounding Raltegravir as a hit or miss.

3. Webs
   January 22nd, 2008 at 4:52 pm

   

   And the thing that pisses me off about the false alarms, is when one does materialize, right away or down the road she will claim success on predicting it. What her and her followers don’t understand is the “Normal Bell Curve” theory and statistical probability. Eventually with enough misses you will get one right.

   BTW, you might want to link this on Les’ blog post on this topic.

4. Mr. Nosuch
   January 23rd, 2008 at 6:46 am

   

   With this fine track record, she should probably consider changing her career. Perhaps she could become a meterologist, or an economist.

5. Smug Baldy
   January 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 am

   

   As long as Sylvia doesn’t hire on as an iceberg lookout on a luxury liner, I’d be happy.

6. dr rick
   January 23rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm

   

   The patent of Raltegravir was from 2003, just a correction. But since every single compound that has entered Phase 3 trials has then made it market and that Raltegravir was the first integrase inhibitor to reach Phase 3 in about 2005, pretty easy prediction to make that a new/novel drug for HIV will be available in 2007 (also add in Pfizer’s Maraviroc).

7. Smug Baldy
   January 24th, 2008 at 11:53 am

   

   Thanks Rick – I’m not so smug that I don’t accept correction when it’s offered. Still, as you point out, Sylvia had reasonable foreknowledge to base her vague “prediction” upon.

8. Lisa
   January 26th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

   

   The point that Webs makes is a good one. I believe the vernacular expression would be something like ‘If you throw enough shit at the wall some of it is bound to stick.’ Seems pretty appropriate for Sylvia’s “predictions”. I predict that Sylvia will continue to bamboozle many folks in 2008 and will make a lot more money than she deserves. And that she will probably use her ‘church’ to avoid paying taxes on most of her earnings.

9. =o)
   February 9th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

   

   hey you got a lot better at structuring and citing your argument…mad props to you!

10. Smug Baldy
    February 10th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    

    Thanks for that, big nose smiley face. Every year I hope to get a little bit better.

11. metoo
    February 10th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

    

    man, i was looking forward to you using SDT! where’d it go? you didn’t even find the proportion correct (since those are looking at hits and correct rejections, not false alarms)! sorry, i’ve had to do so much performance-related stats recently, and when i saw you were going to use SDT i got all excited for a minute. nope, i’m not a geek at all…

12. Smug Baldy
    February 11th, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    

    The data are all there – I was leaving the calculations as an exercise

    Of course, if you absolutely must have the solution:

    You can calculate the proportion correct using the following: P(C) = (Hits + Correct Rejections) / (Hits + Misses + False Alarms + Correct Rejections) = (2 + 0) / (2 + 0 + 23 + 0) = 2/25 = .08 = 8%

13. Yvette
    April 19th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    

    Boy am I ever thankful you have so much time on your hands. Sylvia Brown has been able to explain things in my life. Some things I knew and some I didn’t. I take my hat off to her for helping to ease my mind and see things for myself with alot more clearity.

14. Alyssa
    April 28th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    

    I would like to know if my uncle Mison suffered when he passed away in June 2007?

15. Smug Baldy
    April 28th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    

    Hi Alyssa – If anyone ever claims to be able to answer you question, then feel free to tell them to quit lying. It’s natural to wonder what our loved ones go through at the moment of their death, and it’s unfortunate that we’ll never know. It is upon this curiosity that fakers and charlatans like Sylvia have built their job security. My advice would simply be to ask yourself how you would react if you actually knew the answer. If your reaction is something that deeply troubles you, then consider talking to someone about it – a counselor or therapist, or even a very good friend. Don’t take the word of wingnuts that say they can talk to ghosts, though. They’ll eventually find a way to have you pay them and still leave you to deal with your own troubles by yourself.

    Talk to someone that cares about you instead.

16. Stephanie
    May 18th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    

    Your “hit rate” and “false alarm rate” are wrong. It’s not hit divided by hit plus miss.. it would be hit divided by number of usable predictions (the ones that you were able to analyze). The false alarm rate would be the same thing. You have to have 100% total between hit, miss, false alarm and whatever your other thing was. With just hit and false alarm right now you have 192%.. go back to school.

17. Smug Baldy
    May 28th, 2008 at 8:17 am

    

    Thanks for the suggestion Stephanie, but you’re wrong. If you read the first part of the post and the linked articles about signal detection theory, you’ll find the rationale behind the calculations. In SDT, a hit can only occur in the presence of a target event. In terms of psychic predictions, this equates to a situation in which the psychic positively predicted something and it actually occurred. In the current data set, Sylvia has a 100% hit rate for the two predictions that she actually got right. A false alarm occurs when there’s a prediction of an event, but it didn’t occur as predicted.

    Interestingly, your comment prodded me to once again check my math, and I did find one error. You were right in claiming that my false alarm rate metric was wrong, but not for the reason you specify.

    The false alarm rate I have listed is actually the “false alarm ratio” – or the fraction of predicted events that turned out to be non-targets. This is .92 or 92%.

    The false alarm rate, also known as the probability of a false detection, is simply the ratio of false alarms to total non-occurring events. It turns out that this is easily calculated as #False Alarms / (#False Alarms + #Rejections). Plugging in the numbers, you see that this is 23 / (23 + 0) = 23/23 = 1.00 = 100%.

    Given that, for the 2007 data, Sylvia has a hit rate and false alarm rate of 100%, the best statistic is to look at the overall percentage of correct predictions. As stated before, this is calculated as:

    P(C) = (Hits + Correct Rejections) / (Hits + Misses + False Alarms + Correct Rejections) = (2 + 0) / (2 + 0 + 23 + 0) = 2/25 = .08 = 8%

    So there you have it, you’re partially right, but for the wrong reasons, and I don’t have to go back to school yet.

18. Todd
    May 28th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    

    Okay Sylvia Browne is a human being shes not a fuckin angel sent from heaven so she cant always be right. she is an amazing women who has been proven right in over thousands of cases. so i honestly think ur 2007 sylvia predictions are bullshit and u have no idea what ur talking about. Montel wouldnt have her on his show if she is a liar and neither would other television and radio stations. she has been proven right and wrong. I myself am a self proclaimed psycic,medium. And let me say that you and everybody else have the same gift as me and sylvia. All you have to do is become spiritually connected to ur inner soul. Meditate,keep a dream journal,beleive ur first instinct. you will soon relize that you can not only use the part of yur brain that can predict the future, you can also connect to the spirit world. please comment back because i would love to hear what you have to say about that.:)

19. Smug Baldy
    May 29th, 2008 at 10:55 am

    

    Wow, Todd – your spell checker must be smoking hot! No, seriously, there’s a reason that there are rules in a language, not least of which is that we communicate our ephemeral and insubstantial thoughts clearly to others. But I digress.

    Your central claim appears to be that Sylvia has, “been proven right in over thousands of cases.” What evidence or information do you have that would make you say that? I’ve presented the data from the predictions she made on camera for 2007 and checked them against the facts, and she’s batting 2 for 25. In 2006, she went 3 for 61. Now, maybe you’re privy to information that I can’t find, but if someone makes a claim like, “I can predict the future” and then turns out to be right less than 10% of the time, then what’s a person to do? I tell you what I’m not doing – buying anything from them.

    As Carl Sagan and others have said, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” In the case of Sylvia Browne, we just get extraordinary claim, but even a cursory review of the evidence fails to support them. As for the entertainment media, like Montel’s show, extraordinary claims are clearly enough to put asses in the seats while Sylvia’s on, and more importantly, while the commercials run. Pun intended.

20. Rachel
    May 31st, 2008 at 3:18 am

    

    I just happened to stumble on this site and have to say that I USE to be a big Sylvia fan until I stupidly paid a couple hundred dollars for a “reading” with her so called psychic son, Christopher Dufresne. She talks very highly of him and says that he is the next best thing if a person cannot talk to her personally. None of his predictions have come true and I now feel like a total fool and am totally let down. I have even waited a couple years past his predicted timeframes for things to come to pass, but have only gotten a big old nothing! I have the reading on tape and have listended to it several times to make sure I heard him right, but unfortunately I am now positive that he is just a total scam artist and thief just like his mother. I would love to know what his accuracy rating is!!!
    By the way, I heard Sylvia on the Montel Williams show a while back saying that Hillary Clinton was going to win the election-appears that will be labeled a ‘miss’.???

21. Simply S 1968
    June 11th, 2008 at 11:05 am

    

    I don’t understand why there is so much to be worrying about , we need to just leave the women alone. things could be worst. If she did make those preditions, We don’t have to hear what she have to say, you dont have feed into what she is saying, don’t listen , and stop trashing her.

22. Krissie
    June 11th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    

    Okay, so the reality is that Sylvia Browne is in fact a human being and allowed to make mistakes. Which happens…often. I do find it very alarming that she inaccurately markets her abilities and rips off more people than she helps, for hundreds of dollars. For all the believers, keep on keepin on, if she gives you hope, faith, clarity and direction more power to you. Our opinions shouldn’t waver your undying faith, they in fact should just roll off your back. For the rest of us, it’s just a little insight on how to maybe or maybe not spend our hard earned money, which would go a lot further in our gas tanks right now, than on a SELF proclaimed psychic who continues to fail to deliver. Also, I do realize that the association with Montel causes many people to believe she is the real deal because he is such a respected figure. I wonder how his ratings are on days when Sylvia appears? My guess is probably very high. As Sylvia has proved, there is a lot of money to be made when people think you can give them answers.

23. Smug Baldy
    June 12th, 2008 at 8:56 am

    

    Thanks for the comments Simply S 1968 and Krissie. To Simply S’s question, the issue I have isn’t so much with Sylvia – but with the hoards of people who buy into her snake oil. She’s offering people hope, but it’s false hope. She offers comfort, but it’s based on a lie (one that lines her bank account). My question to Sylvia supporters is this: at what point does the fact that she’s not really psychic make a difference? I wouldn’t write anything about her if she marketed herself as a fantasy writer, but instead she repeatedly makes false claims and people eat it up. To me, that’s profoundly interesting.

    To Krissie – couldn’t have said it better myself. I suspect you’re on the right track with your insight about believers. Quite often when people deeply hold a belief and facts come along that run counter to it, we reject the fact rather than reevaluate our belief. For some believers, there are simply no facts powerful enough that can shake their beliefs. That’s the one thing that’s provided job security for snake-oil salesmen, religious wing nuts, and totalitarian dictators throughout history. Heck – look at the continued debate that we’re having about Evolution and Creationism. Evolution is a fact (and Darwinian Evolution is the Theory that explains it), but it’s extremely inconvenient to evangelical types who take an idolatrously literal interpretation of the Bible. You think a mere thing like demonstrable scientific evidence will shake anyone’s faith that the earth is more than 6000 years old? It hasn’t yet, and I’ll bet that some folks are simply immune to the facts.

24. Karen
    June 23rd, 2008 at 4:42 am

    

    NO!. The problem is this is simply not a case of “okay, so Sylvia is human after all and does make mistakes”. That is not what she is about at all. What she does is not some silly little form of harmless entertainment for the masses. She is a cold-heart, conniving, maniacal witch, who scams, deceive, tricks, lies and rips off honest, decent, good-hearted, trusting and grieving people. She is so cruel, inhuman and deceitful. She charges $750.00 for a 30 minute reading, in which you sit there on the phone for 30 minutes while she rambles on and on about the most stupid, idiotic, and unimportant crap!!. she get’s away with this because no one is holding this slug accountable for her deplorable actions and behavior. In addition to all the money she makes doing fraudulent personal and private readings, she also makes tons of money for fraudulently claiming she writes her books, when in fact, they are all written by a ghost writer who simply changes all the words around and uses the same recycled crap over and over again, but uses a different title. Sylvia is just not smart enough to write book, haven’t you ever seen the Montel Williams show??. Proof positive she’s an idiot. She also makes money on cruise’s, personal and private appearances, TV and radio appearances, jewelry, miscellaneous stuff and anything else she can scam people out of!!. She makes millions of dollars ripping people off every year, claiming to be something she is not – a physic!

    Sylvia Browne, John Edwards, James, Van Prague, Allison Dubois, Lisa Williams, and any other person you see or hear on TV are all frauds, every single one of them. Not one of them can tell you anything about your personal life; about your family; about your friends; about your job; about your life; about where you live; about the future; how many children you have; how many kids you’re going to have; who or if you will marry, or when; anything about a crime, etc, etc, etc,… They simply cannot give you any genuine information because they are all frauds, fake, phonies, charlatans, and criminals who should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I have been following these people on TV for a long time and have found out a great deal of information on them, the same exact way they are able to find out any type of information they need on people they are going to read/scam, or giving a fraudulent reading to. It’s very easy when you have many people helping you to retrieve information on people that you plan to scam, deceive and rip off!!. If you want to find out something about anyone, then do what private detective do. These charlatans are using the same techniques incorporated, employed, and practiced by private investigators. These “EVIL” TV physic’s that you see on TV are nothing but huge, huge frauds, who are deceptive, lying, misleading, and ripping off thousands of honest, innocent, good-hearted, grieving, trusting, kind, and naive people. It’s very sad and disgusting that TV would help these charlatans in this horrific and unforgiving way, simply outrageous. I am quite shocked that they have gotten away with this type of financial fraud, con, and scam for ssssoooooo many years now, and have not been held accountable for it. It is just amazing and I can’t understand why?

    These scam artists employ both “HOT” and “COLD” tricks to deceive, fool, trick and convince people they are the real thing, when in fact, they are only the opposite!!. It makes me sick that no one is going after them and holding them accountable for ripping off good people. None of these scam artists you see on TV have any supernatural gift or talent whatsoever. These people are very cruel and they don’t give a dam who they rip off. Just go to the “StopSylviaBrowne” website and you can read many stories on just that one website. She, like all the other frauds, charge people $750.00 for a 30 minute fraudulent reading. Still think it’s entertainment and not hurting anyone??.

    This is exactly the same as if I went to a physciatrist, psychiatrist, doctor, dentist, chiropractor, or professional, for help and they claimed they were professional, could help me and then they performed procedures or treatment on me. When in fact they had never went to school, been trained, could not really do what they claimed, were not authorized or licensed to practice or perform surgeries or treatment on me, but charged me anyway. And this is also no different then if my air conditioner or refrigerator quit working and I had to hire a competent, skilled, trained and licensed technician to repair it. I expect that when I call someone and they come out to repair my appliance, that they are going to be legitimate, honest, trained, experienced, licensed and everything they claimed to be. You can’t go around charging people $750.00 for a 30 minute procedure, treatment or reading that you are not qualified, trained, licensed, or legitimately able to perform. And, if you do, then you should be held accountable for it, period!!.

    Our civilization was not built on a pack of lies or liars. You cannot have a successful civilization and have people lying and claiming they are something they are not, or claim they can do something that they cannot!!. it just doesn’t work like that. What if everyone were to lie??. What you should do is set a trap for these frauds. Invite them to be guests on your show. Be very nice and tell them whatever they want to hear. Then once you get them their and on TV, then bring out people they have never met in their life and make them do a reading, just like the one’s they do over the phone. Don’t give them any upfront information or let them ask any personal questions, this is a trick to get personal information from them. Sylvia is notorious for making people ask personal questions, which gives her important personal information on that person, then all she has to do is simply make stuff up, anything at all!!. However, her reading, which are only one on one conversations between her and the caller, she will not let that person ask any questions until the end and then they can only ask one simple question. She is so conniving, manipulative, deceitful, a liar and truly “EVIL”!!. Montel’s staff used to supply Sylvia with any and all the personal information they could get from each of the guests who were scheduled to appear on his show, well in advance. This was done because she is a complete fraud and she would always been informed as much as possible about that person/guest prior to the show. Montel’s show would not allow any person to appear on any show with Sylvia unless they agreed to give the staff as much upfront information as they possibly could. The staff also employed certain tactics, tricks and techniques to get information out of people as well. They also had “RINGERS” in order to legitimize and make Sylvia look and appear as credible, trustworthy and legitimate as possible. There was so much going on behind the scene’s that people had no idea it was going on. In essence, all the Montel Williams show was for Sylvia, was an hour long info-commercial to drum up business for her. I am sure they both made millions of dollars from TV and radio guest appearances, phone and personal readings, private and public appearances, cruise‘s, conventions, book sales from books she claimed that she wrote but really didn’t, jewelry, her church, recorded stuff, miscellaneous stuff and whatever else she had her hands into.

25. Smug Baldy
    June 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    

    Wow Karen, thanks for the great comment!

26. Katrina M
    June 26th, 2008 at 8:37 am

    

    Flooding in the south.

    False Alarm: This is a pretty safe prediction, but Sylvia still managed to raise a false alarm for 2007 instead. The real southern story was one of catastrophic drought, not flooding.

    WELL, well, well… I guess she missed it by a year! LOL

    What you don’t seem to understand is that time has no real meaning on the other side. Personally, I wouldn’t bother to try & give anyone a heads up if I were in Sylvia’s shoes. Too easy to miss with the time factor…particularly among skeptics. And I DO thank you for putting everything in such an easy to read format…I can make my own judgments regarding foreknowledge.

27. allison
    June 27th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    

    i as well think sylvia is a fraud. i am a christian and believe God gives people certain gifts and i believe some people today as well as in bible times have those special gifts to see the future. i do know one thing for sure, if its a gift from God you don’t charge money to help people. thats just aweful and not even biblical.

28. Jason
    June 28th, 2008 at 2:42 am

    

    I considder myself to be open minded, but very skepticle of things that seem to good to be true. My question is this. Why would a psychic, supposedly a spiritual one that says she helps people, waiste her time on fortelling what star is getting married or breaking up? Who cares? And every one needs to earn a living, but why would people spend good money on a psychic that has such a poor record doing false prdictions on the stars?!!!!?

29. Ed
    July 11th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    

    Wow, Karen. So many adjectives… you must really know what you’re talking about. XD You could have said everything you typed in that novel in a single paragraph if you weren’t constantly repeating yourself and reusing the same adjectives over and over to describe the same thing you described in the sentence before. lawl

30. Kamille
    July 11th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    

    Karen,
    If you got ripped off, or put faith in someone’s dubious “spiritual” revelations and got burned, it’s understandable that you would be angry – However, that doesn’t make everyone who has the ability to utilize senses not common to most humans a charlatan.
    There are, and have been throughout history, a number of psychics and prophets who were able to break through the physical illusion and access information which you and I generally are not privy to.
    I am not a psychic, but I have had several unexpected paranormal experiences, which confirmed to me the plausability of such phenomena.
    For one, 38 years ago at a party, I had headphones on and loud music. Suddenly I felt someone poke his head into the room behind me… I didn’t hear or see him, I just felt him – but more than that, I instantly “knew” this stranger inside and out (like as if I were in his head). I quickly ran into the kitchen where the host couple sat, and breathlessly told them all about this weird knowing I had that this guy was someone people generally disliked, but who is really a very sweet sensitive soul and greatly misunderstood… and so on. I went on for five minutes about his personality and circumstances – without having ever seen him or spoken to him or heard of him in my life. When I was done my friends confirmed that I had nailed his story to a “T”.
    I never had a repeat experience like that one, but the one I did have not only proved psychic ability to me, but how it feels to a psychic, what it is like to irrefutably and solidly “know” something that you couldn’t otherwise know. It was very much akin to the way I know who I am and what I like and dislike, and what my personal traits are. I know because I have access to my own mind. But on that day I had access inside a total stranger’s mind.
    As I was writing a letter to a young woman who had been very special to my late father, I wanted to be able to give her a message from him. I said “Dad, I’m going to meditate now and try and hear you. What would you like to say to Tanya?”. I didn’t know if I could do it, but even if I did “hear” something, how would I know it was pure, i.e. not from my own thoughts? Nevertheless, I gave it a go. After a while I seemed to hear something that felt like it came to me rather than a thought I concocted myself. I wrote: “Tanya, I don’t know if this makes any sense, if it has some symbolic meaning, or even if it’s real, but I asked my dad to try and relay a message to me for you, and this is what I got: ‘Tell Tanya I love her and tell her to take good care of the car’”.
    Some months later while talking to my sisters about this one of them said “Oh you know what that means. Its about the car he gave her”.
    I was floored. “He gave her a CAR!? Are you kidding me! A car!”. The fact that my father had given someone a car at a time when I really needed one to get work, well, that really pissed me off. No, I had no idea about that when I received his message. It was the kind of thing I wouldn’t forget. So much for it being a “symbolic” message. But people, when they are on “the other side”, often come up with off the wall stuff merely to let us know that it really is them.
    I never win anything. 55 years of living and I’ve won virtually nothing – unlike my sister the gambler who wins at bingo and even got a ten thousand dollar instant win. But one day I was at my best friend’s father-in-law’s company picnic, where they had given out a number to everyone, including me, for a prize drawing event. The prizes were trinkets, but there were tons of them. I think they gave away at least fifty prizes. The “big” prize was a bottle of Wild Turkey whiskey. I was a teetotaler and couldn’t care less about winning a bottle of booze. Nevertheless, I told my friend’s daughter right from the start, “I’m going to win the Wild Turkey”. I wasn’t trying to make an affirmation. I just KNEW I was going to win it. 45 minutes to an hour later there was just one prize left: the whiskey; and yes, I won it (much to the dismay of the people who actually worked for that company).
    I could go on with about 20 other experiences which include psychic info, materialization of something not of this world, messages from the dead, prophetic dreams, an interdimensional shift, past life regression, warning from (an angel or guide), and more. But that’s just me. I don’t expect anyone to accept anything on faith alone. God knows I don’t! I just wanted to share a tidbit of my otherworldy experiences in order to proffer another point of view.
    I have have countless psychic readings over the past 40 years. Some were really good. Some were a waste of money. That’s why I stick with the guy I go to now; at least I know he is legit. The first time I went, he said (as soon as I sat down) “You are single, divorced, your son is going to break up with his girlfriend”. All true. I didn’t mention having any kids let alone one son, who shortly after did break up with his girlfriend. He said “your mother is deceased. She died of breast cancer. She didn’t like your father much at all; they were too different. On the other side she is helping children who were abused and murdered. She counsels them, gives them love and helps them to make the transition”. What Bill M. did not know was that my mother was always trying to help abused children because she had been abused as a child. All of it was true. There were no records. We were from another state and didn’t know many people here. The Internet was yet to gain popularity.
    Four year later I went to see the psychic again. He reads for at least a thousand ppl per year. Before I even sat down he said “David is here and has something to tell you”. He then relayed words from an ex-boyfriend who had died 15 years earlier and it was very specific. It included not only facts about our relationship and how he died, but that he wanted to thank me for having told him what happens to us when we die and how to deal with it. My ex was a skeptic. In fact, I heard that one of the things that drove us apart was my “spookiness”. He couldn’t accept anything he couldn’t see or touch. “David said that when he found himself separated from his body, he remembered what you told him about transition, and that made it easy for him instead of frightening. He wants you to know that even though he had been skeptical at the time, he remembered it and is so grateful to you for sharing that information.”
    Bill is superb. Not a hundred percent all the time, but specific enough so that most ppl are amazed. His predictions frequently come true – such as last year when he told me a relative in Canada would pass away soon. When he told me this I was sure it would be one of my old aunts or uncles. But it wasn’t. It was a fairly young cousin who suddenly died of a rare genetic disorder that none of us knew ran in our family.
    Anyhoo, enough about why I know some psychics are valid. As for Sylvia Browne, I used to think she was the creme de la creme of the gifted ones. I based this on how right on she was with some audience members. But something about Sylvia disturbed me almost from day one.
    How can someone who presents themselves as compassionate and caring, become so exasperated with the individuals who are honored to be in her presence? Consistently roll their eyeballs as if to say the readee is daft? Can groan “Isn’t that what I just said!” when all someone was doing was confirming her statement in an effort to validate Sylvia? It’s a courtesy they extend – and their thanks is to be made to look like idiots on tv.
    Even worse than the eye-rolling, forehead smacking gestures and sarcasm – is the dismissive, unconcerned manner in which she often handles parents of missing or dead children. They come to her (often from afar and at costly expense) with fervent hope that she will give them some sweet scrap of information or a message from their child, and she’s pretty much “Uh-huh. He’s on the other side. He’s doing fine”. I mean, puh-leez, can’t you even TRY to feign compassion for these people, Sylvia?
    I couldn’t watch her anymore. I was just so angry when someone on the show said “But when I saw you, you TOLD me that I was going to win the lottery” and Sylvia cut her off abruptly and became very agitated. She went off on a rant about how the girl jumped to conclusions. She tried to make it look like the girl was a nut case. Montel rescued her and they went to commercial. But my friend and I, who were watching the show, both agreed that we heard the young lady say that Sylvia personally told her that she would win. There was no misunderstanding that.
    When I found this website and read what many had to say about Sylvia – especially people who had dealings and relationships with her – and I learned of the cold and unfeeling things she’s done to so many – I understood where the disdainful expressions she makes came from: she’s just a capitalistic opportunistic egotistical phony. Now don’t get me wrong, she may have some ability or she may not (I think some start out with it and then lose it with abuse), but irregardless of any possible psychic ability, she is a phony personality.
    I would hope that people reserve judgment about other psychics and mediums and all things spiritual, and not base their assumptions on disappointments over a few rotten apples. (For what it’s worth, I think John Edwards is legit). I have found, in 40 years of my quest for spiritual truths, many frauds, so-so talents, pompous asses, and a lot of greedy phonies. I avoid them – lesson learned – and move on. After a while you begin to recognize feasibility from laughability in the claims of those who tout spiritual gifts.
    Remember too, that even scientists are discovering some unbelievable revelations now about our universe; for example, that it is a hologram. That we are not solid. That quantum particles behave on one way or another based on observation – not “scientific laws”. We really are beginning to realize that not only is anything possible, but that nothing is the way we think it is. It behooves us to have open minds, even when we feel like giving up. Life has always been difficult and confusing, but never more than in this time.
    Whew! I gotta go to bed now. When I get on a roll…..

31. May
    July 13th, 2008 at 9:46 am

    

    LOL U obviously have nothing better to do with ur time than try to “disprove” the great and wonderful Sylvia Browne. It would seem to me, that anything she said that did actually happen, u start saying she gathered the info somewhere else, or the info was just to “vague”. Gimme a break. She has gone to great lengths to help others in need, and brings some peace to those, in knowing that when we “die”, its really not so terrible at all. Get a life and and keep ur negativity to urself. Ur what she calls a dark entity…O and I saw someone say she shouldn’t be charging money for this. We all have to live, and make a living. She is powerful enough and so well liked, that if she didn’t charge crazy prices, she would have NO free time, and every joe blow on the street would come in for a reading, which im sure she doesnt want. And Karen, hahaha, did u ever think that maybe psychics can’t read u because ur a terrible person? A dark entity that just keeps getting recycled back to earth, no spirit guides, nothing. Psychics can’t read people like that…just think about it.

32. Abby
    July 14th, 2008 at 9:36 am

    

    May – I think you’re an idiot. Maybe it’s not that psychics can’t read dark entities. Maybe they’re just faking and they can’t read anybody.

33. May
    July 16th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    

    Hahaha. No. Research a little, then get back to me when u retain some knowledge…

34. melbee
    July 23rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    

    Kamille- Great Post. I completely agree with you. I could write for hours talking about my experiences and beliefs on it.
    I don’t believe in Sylvia Browne, but I do believe there are some legit psychics out there who can use that ability for others. We actually all have the ability. We just have to tap into our spirit.

    May I have a question for you. I don’t think anyone is saying that she should have to do it for free, but to charge someone 800 bucks who maybe be at rock bottom and desperately feel they need her help is wrong.
    Why WOULDN’T she want to help every “Joe Blow” that comes in off the street. Isn’t what she’s doing suppose to be a gift given to her by God?
    Jesus helped EVERYONE He could for free. Actually he sacrificed his life to help everyone be healed and saved mentally, physically and spiritually.

35. Katherine
    July 24th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    

    I stopped believing in Sylvia Browne when she said that Al Gore would win the presidency.

36. Kyle Rich
    August 1st, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    

    “By the way, I heard Sylvia on the Montel Williams show a while back saying that Hillary Clinton was going to win the election-appears that will be labeled a ‘miss’.???
    Simply S 1968
    June 11th, 2008 at 11:05 am”

    I am soooo glad you mentioned that Simply S. I thought I was the only person who remembered her saying that on Montel. It is a statement that stood with me all these years because it was so bold and “out there” back then. That was in…I think…2001, and Sylvia specifically said 2008. I remember very vividly. I am still trying to find a Youtube video of her saying that. Still, regardless of if Sylvia is a phony or a real psychic, you have to admit that was pretty freaky that Hillary Clinton just happened to run in 2008 and came VERY close to winning.

    KDR

37. Lou77
    August 6th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    

    Karen, Um allison dubois is a fictional charactor on the television show medium.

    For all of you that are angry, The one thing that i know is that whenever you get a reading from a psychic, they either tell you up front or you have to sign something that says that it is for entertainment only. So, if you do get a reading and they are wrong or only have a 20% accuracy then deal with it. don’t be angry with them. Be angry with yourself. You, and you alone are at fault for putting all of your faith is someone that you have never meet before.
    There are people out there that are gifted, I have meet several in my life. Some that have been so dead on that there is nothing else that i can do but believe them. My bottom line is this, Just because you do not trust or believe in one person does not mean that everyone that offers these type of sevices are the same.

38. Amanda Harris
    August 9th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    

    I have a brother that died when he was 18, I miss his so dearly. I have the feeling that he is around me. Could you tell me if he watches over me, is he sending me a message? On the other side could you tell me if he’s happy and at peace? I want you to tell me his name. Please so I can know your not a phoney.

39. lisa
    August 10th, 2008 at 8:36 am

    

    I had a reading with Sylvia’s son during a very hard time in my life. It was not only inaccurate but lasted, for 400 dollars, about 10 minutes. People like this, as I no longer believe in ANY of it, need to be revealed for who they really are. Taking advantage of people who are suffering or looking for hope, is disgusting!

40. Hope
    August 13th, 2008 at 12:09 am

    

    The prediction “We are in a polar tilt”….Ive recently been reading online about how some think the world will end in Dec. 2012. Supposedly there are a few different (coinsidenses for now) one of them has to to with a polar shift that was predicted a long long time ago. There are varying versions here is one.Polar Reversal and Pole Shift

    The iron core of the earth is magnetic. Because of the switching of the magnetic core, the earth will start to rotate in the other direction! Because of this, the outer earth’s crust will break off! In other words the outer layer will be “floating.” It will be on the loose, no longer attached to its “master.” If you are on the planet at that moment, it will tilt some thousands of miles in a couple of hours. Looking up in the sky it will seem as if “the sky is coming down,” as it is described in the old scriptures! Giant quakes will occur. Earth plates will be moving, mountains will be rising where first there was nothing, land masses will break open and collapse, mountains collapse, land will sink into the ocean, volcanoes erupt in many places. In short, the most terrible nightmare cannot be terrible enough to describe this world’s destruction.

    They Calculated it!

    Now you can ask me: are you sure of what you are saying? My answer: very sure, because the Atlanteans and their descendants the Maya and Old Egyptians knew a theory about the magnetic fields of the sun that even modern astronomers don’t know anything of! With this theory they were able to predict the worldwide flood of 9792 BC and the coming one in 2012! Here, I’m asking for your comprehension. I want you to understand that they CALCULATED the end of Atlantis – now buried under the South Pole. Again, they CALCULATED an even more violent end for us. That there is a link between 2012 and 9792 BC is undeniable (See my book The Orion Prophecy). If we keep ignoring these findings
    - we will all die. All alarm bells should be ringing around the world! http://www.nasca.org.uk/Asian_disaster/2012/2012.html

41. Steve
    August 15th, 2008 at 5:22 pm

    

    “that doesn’t make everyone who has the ability to utilize senses not common to most humans a charlatan.”
    Provide evidence! Not anecdotal, unprovable hearsay and flimflam, real scientific evidence. Until people like you and SB, spouting this kind of nonsense over the web, prove a single iota of what you invent, please don’t expect any sane, rational person to treat your idiotic ramblings with anything verging on respect.
    All mediums are either: frauds, charlatans or mentally ill. I can say that with confidence as NOT ONE, repeat NOT A SINGLE ONE, has ever given any reliable, independently verifiable, specific, accurate infromation which could only be obtained via paranormal avenues. In all these years, not one!

    If you can, go take the million dollar challenge and prove us normal, rational people all wrong. I’d love to see it, it would open up a whole new realm of study for mankind, but I won’t hold my breath…

    Instead of stepping up and proving the BS you spout, you hide behind vague predictions which never come true, talk about vague nonsense like cosmic vibrations and dark entities and generally delude yourselves and the public.
    Welcome to the new dark ages.

42. Smug Baldy
    August 17th, 2008 at 11:58 am

    

    Thanks, Steve – It’s nice to have the occasional skeptic chime in.

    Hope – btw – that’s some pretty out there stuff, but I like the Antarctic tie-in with Stargate Atlantis. Very cutting-edge science fiction.

43. Dynna
    August 17th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    

    LOL! TO KATHERINE !! THAT WAS HILARIOUS!!..I AGREE AND DISAGREE A LITTLE BIT WITH ALL THE COMMENTS LEFT ON HERE.. I JUST THINK SYLVIA HAS MADE ALOT OF TRUE AMAZING PREDICTIONS AND SOME THAT ARE NOT SO TRUE BUT I DO KNOW THAT SHE IS HUMAN AND LIKE ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING SHE IS GOING TO MAKE MISTAKES… I DO BELIEVE SHE HAS HELPED MANY PEOPLE AND GIVEN SO MUCH HOPE TO THOSE WHO HAD NO WHERE ELSE TO TURN…AND I ALSO BELIEVE THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT FEEL THEY HAVE BEEN JIPPED BY HER….I DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY ABOUT HER RIDICULOUS PRICES BECAUSE I DONT KNOW WHAT I WOULD DO IF I WAS IN HER PLACE..ALWAYS HAVING PEOPLE REQUESTING MY SERVICES EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE..IM JUST NOT IN A PLACE TO MAKE JUDGEMENTS…SYLVIA BROWNE IS WHO SHE IS BECAUSE OF WHAT PEOPLE HAVE MADE HER TO BE AND I DONT FAULT HER FOR THAT… ALSO,.. TO THE GIRL MAY,I THINK THAT WAS A GREAT COMMENT U LEFT..AND ABBY IF ANYBODY’S A IDIOT ..IT’S YOU..WHO ACTUALLY TAKES UP 2 MINUTES OF THERE TIME TO CALL SOMEONE ELSE A NAME…I THOUGHT U ACTUALLY HAD A OPINION OR SOMTHING… JUST SHUT UP IF YOU DONT HAVE ANYTHING INTERESTING OR NICE TO SAY!!

44. Patti Merritt
    August 20th, 2008 at 12:26 am

    

    Amanda,
    You need to check your “Medium” facts. I live in the Phoenix area and Allison Dubois is not just a fictional character on TV. Allison Dubois (not Patricia Arquette) was interviewed by the local media a few times before and after the debut of the show Medium. I got a notice for jury duty in Phoenix during that first season. I was chosen to serve on a murder case. When my group arrived in the courtroom, I thought the woman at the prosecutor’s table looked familiar. When the judge introduced the legal teams, Allison Dubois was the dark haired (with a noticeable white streak) familiar woman. She’s real and she’s not a blond. She assists the prosecutor with jury selection.

    Google Allison Dubois and her official website should be at the top of the first ten pages regarding this subject.

    Now, don’t be shy. Come on out from under the rock you’ve been living under.

45. Patti Merritt
    August 20th, 2008 at 1:01 am

    

    Amanda and Lou77,
    So sorry for misreading the header, Amanda. I wanted to respond to Lou77 concerning her belief that Allison DuBois is only a TV character.

    Patti

46. Amanda
    August 21st, 2008 at 8:18 am

    

    in 2007 sylvia brown predicted j lo was unable to have kids and this was NOT a False Alarm, she was infact unable to have kids… due to a high dose of fertility drugs over a period of time she ended up concieving twins and through out her whole pregnacy she had to be monitored very close by doctors b/c she was at a higher risk for preclampsyia!!!! so u MISS!!

47. judith
    August 22nd, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    

    To everyone..forget Sylvia’s predictions. They may or may not come true or maybe they were misconstrued in the first place. For me, Sylvia has helped me move on in my spiritual quest. The information she gives concerning our life here and the Other Side, for me, coincide with all of the great religions of the world both past and present. Also, if anyone would take the time to study both ancient and current philosphies, religions as well as past and current physicis and metaphisics, you may see many correlations with Sylvia’s beliefs. I could name you a hundred authors and works that would satisfy Sylvia’s way of looking at things. She has a little different take but so do all of the great minds. For example, read Deepok Chopra. One of the finest minds of our times and see how Sylvia fits in. Chopra is a lot deeper but anything he says does read in with Sylvia. Read Gary Renard’s books…Read Bohn…..Read my favorite, Michael Talbot, “The Holographic Universe”. Then read anyone in his bibliography. People like Sylvia and John Edwards and such are messengers in their own ways. And speak to those who are able to hear them. Do not crititsize. They and many others are helping to make this world more spiritual. People who make it a job to crititsize their efforts ought not to judge lest you be judged. Read, grow, learn, keep an open mind and most of all love yourself so that you can be loved. These special people who are born with talents and insights that many of us have a hard time comprehending, are here for a reason: to teach those of us who are ready to listen and grow. What is the point of trying to debunk these efforts. If it doesn’t suit you, ignore it. There is no one person who knows everything. I believe that the deal is to garner as much knowledge as possible and then put the things together that ring of truth for you. Stop debunking Sylvia and listen to what she has to say as a spiritualist. Maybe I am nieve but not in one of Sylvia’s books nor on any broadcasts that I have seen has she ever mentioned any of the current personalities such as LJO or Brittany or the like. Its like who cares. Why would she?

48. shawn
    September 2nd, 2008 at 12:21 pm

    

    If folks would only research a little before they get into these things then maybe there would be less complaining. I found the predictions facts informative. What a flimflam!

49. PATSY
    September 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    

    I WOULD LIKE TO ASK A QUESTION ABOUT ME LOOSING SOMETHING BACK IN JANUARY 18 OR 19, COULD YOU HELP ME LOOK FOR IT PLEASE AND THANK YOU…..

50. jonathan
    September 4th, 2008 at 4:45 am

    

    Amazing this topic just keeps on keeping on.

    To respond to Judith (Aug 22)

    “Forget her predictions”? What other claim to fame does she have but to be able to reveal hidden truths? That someone is helpful to you does not mean they have valuable counsel for the masses. Yet this lady is giving such counsel, selling it to the masses.

    Logical fallacy: She helped me so she must be trustworthy.

    We are looking for truth, not just something that makes us feel good.
    “The information she gives concerning our life here and the Other Side, for me, coincide with all of the great religions of the world both past and present.” No, her philosophy completely disagrees with Christianity and many other religions. You can say her ideas agree with Bhuddism and New Age religion.

    Logical fallacy: The fact that she agrees with previous philosophies makes her trusthworthy.

    Look, I want something that I can believe in too, but that means critical thinking. If someone is a professional psychic, they should be right most of the time.

51. ttandco
    September 6th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    

    All I want to say is let people believe in what makes them happy. We have way too many people trying to tear down anyone they have no knowledge about. Get into Politics and change our country as that is what the world needs now. Read, study and figure what is best for our country then to worry about when Sylvia is right or wrong. Look at Bush and the weapons of Mass Destruction.

52. Tiana
    October 13th, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    

    Shouldn’t JLo and Marc Anthony not having a baby be counted as a “correct rejection” instead of a “hit”? It’s a lot easier to guess what won’t happen than what will happen.

    That’s right, Sylvia lovers…I said GUESS. And they are bad guesses at that.

53. Smug Baldy
    October 17th, 2008 at 11:22 am

    

    Great catch Tiana – that is a correct rejection! I’m not sure whether it’s easier to guess that something will or will not happen, but it’s pretty clear that Sylvia isn’t using any sort of special powers here.

    That means we have the following results:

    Original Results from above:

    Hits/Misses/False Alarms/Correct Rejections : 2/0/23/0

    Hit Rate = Hits/(Hits + Misses) = 2/(2+0) = 2/2 = 100%
    False Alarm Rate = False Alarms / (Hits + False Alarms) = 23/(2+23) = 23/25 = 92%

    Revised Results after moving one hit to the CR column:

    Hits/Misses/False Alarms/Correct Rejections : 1/0/23/1

    Hit Rate = Hits/(Hits + Misses) = 1/(1+0) = 1/1 = 100%
    False Alarm Rate = False Alarms / (Hits + False Alarms) = 23/(1+23) = 23/24 = 95.83%

    Overall correct prediction rate = (Hits + Correct Rejections) /(Hits + Misses + False Alarms + Correct Rejections) = 2/(1 + 0 + 23 + 1) = 2/25 = .08 = 8%.

    You’ll note that the hit rate and her correct prediction rate remain the same (at 100% and 8% respectively). This happens because moving a hit to the CR column doesn’t affect either of those calculations. On the other hand, it does slightly increase her False Alarm rate from 92% to 95% by decreasing the term in the denominator a bit.

    That was a great catch, though it doesn’t really alter the general picture of Sylvia Brown’s low predictive accuracy. In most cases in 2007 – now 95% of them – she cried wolf.

54. Curious
    October 18th, 2008 at 11:04 am

    

    You people have way too much time on your hands. Karen take a pill. Life is not that serious people throw their money away for stupid things all the time. Who knows what she does and does not see. Who cares. Read a book get a hobby. how the hell did I get to this site? That’s all I need to say. I don’t have two hours to elaborate how dumb this was. Good Day whiners.

55. Terri
    October 19th, 2008 at 6:08 pm

    

    Wow, I can’t believe all the replys. As for Kamille’s remark about a lady in the audience saying Sylvia told her she won the lottery. I saw that episode. But the lady said I had a “dream about you” and you told me I would win the lottery, but I hadn’t. Sylvia said I would never tell someone they would win the lottery and I don’t give messages in dreams, duh! Some of the predictions were not correct and I am sad that some of them haven’t come true. I have been to several psycologists and they charge a lot of money and insist on you coming back the next week. I’m sorry, but Sylvia’s reading and her books have given me great comfort and others in my life. There are many people out there who need comfort and I agree with her saying “take what you want out of my writings” and leave the rest. People should apply that in all the areas of learning in life and quit discecting everyone and everything. good Luck to you all.

56. laura
    October 27th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    

    I think its pretty ridiculous that you actually had time to write up something like this.. why don’t you take the time you did things like this to actually help something in the world. you know the real world , which by the way its 08′ now and there I live in VA and there have been a LOT of unusual tornadoes so maybe the prediction isnt wrong maybe its the year!

57. Smug Baldy
    October 29th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    

    laura said

    why don’t you take the time you did things like this to actually help something in the world

    I think it’s ridiculous that you don’t see the intrinsic value to the entire world of unmasking frauds in this way. I know you believe I’m wasting my time, but the day will come when you’ll thank me for warning you of your misplaced faith in phony psychics and other charlatans. Such is the way of belief in that which is false.

    BTW, you’re welcome.

58. Karl
    October 29th, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    

    Stumbled on this site. Great fun.

    I am a chauffeur and am waiting for Sylvia to do her show. I have driven Sylvia on more than one occasion. She and her sons give me the creeps. They are dismissive and mildly obnoxious.

    Having chauffeured many celebrities and VIP’s of various calibers for several years I too have developed psychic powers. I can tell a BS artist within seconds on meeting them. My success rate is about 99%.

    Her sons have the same bearing and demeanor as the Pro Wrestlers I drove last week. That seems incongruous for someone in touch with other dimensions.

    They are minimalist tippers to boot.

    You are doing good work. Carry on.
    Karl the Chauffeur

59. Smug Baldy
    November 3rd, 2008 at 4:15 pm

    

    Thanks, Karl! Great to hear about your power – I’ll bet it comes in handy!

60. Lorna
    November 6th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    

    She did say a Democrat would become the next president, and also within 8 years we would have a black president.
    Well both of those occurred
    YAY OBAMA!
    (hah, and I’m Canadian)

61. Shannon
    November 10th, 2008 at 11:32 am

    

    I would like to say that this is all a bunch of PUCK! If you think that someone can see into the past or future you have nothing better to do with your life. I say “GET A LIFE” and stop trying to understand what is going to happen and make it happen!

62. Smug Baldy
    November 10th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    

    Just for the record – I can see into the past. We all can.

63. Marcia
    December 11th, 2008 at 9:37 am

    

    Acho muito interessante esses estudos.
    O que conheço de Sylvia é que ela é logica, inteligente,mas um medio não pode ser 100% correto, só Deus é 100% em qualquer assunto no Universo.
    Então paremos de julgar.
    Li todos os livros que são traduzidos para o BRASIl, e quer saber tudo que ela escreve me diz muito, pois é coerente, coisa que não encontramos em nenhuma religião atual. Sem fanatismo e com grande conforto para alma é isso que penso de SYLVIA BROWNE.
    Atenc.

64. Smug Baldy
    December 13th, 2008 at 8:29 am

    

    Marcia –

    It is good that Sylvia Brown may provide comfort. You are right in saying she is not 100% correct, since the data shows her predictions to be wrong 95% of the time. If she claims to have powers that the rest of us do not possess, then she is clearly either misguided or lying.

65. Susan
    December 28th, 2008 at 6:26 am

    

    Try a psychic named Tina in California. Astoudnign advice that was ACCURATE. http://www.TinaLee.us. I was very satisfied with my psychic reading over the phone.
    Been to so so many, she was the best so far, very detailed

66. Bruce
    December 31st, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    

    Sylvia is a fraud. Anybody can guess at this shit. Let her give a specific date of an event and specific names, places etc. Its a crime that people pay this cow just to feel better.

67. Jymes
    January 14th, 2009 at 12:53 am

    

    im predicting that germany will take contol of the gaza strip and so those israel fks how to take care of bizness

68. Jymes
    January 14th, 2009 at 12:56 am

    

    o i got something else here silvia will die in 6 months of brain cancer sorry to be the bearer of bad news

69. Jymes
    January 14th, 2009 at 12:58 am

    

    sorry the cancer doesn t kill her its the operation my bad

70. Evelyn
    January 17th, 2009 at 10:59 pm

    

    If we didn’t give her so much attention, she wouldn’t be so filthy rich. We’ve all been made a fool of at some point in this life. She has had a lot of years to prove her accuracy and has yet to do so. Could it be that she laughs all the way to the bank? I happen to be one that has contributed to her wealth, much to my stupidity. Get over it. We all make bad decisions. That is unless you happen to have those oh so illusive “psychic powers.” It’s a different story when she starts spouting all those wrong answers about missing children. Then it becomes no longer a simple con job but cruel and abusive.

71. Chris
    January 22nd, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    

    LOL Check out the first post on this site…

    http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message481949/pg2

72. Joyce
    February 27th, 2009 at 1:14 am

    

    God was,is and will always be the greatest Predictor. So why not BELIEVE in HIM and see Sylvia’s as interesting.

73. melkrim
    March 5th, 2009 at 11:02 am

    

    Now Mrs. Sylvia Brown is 71 year ols! Does she need more money then she has already, why there are so many baskets to fill in a lot of web sites, is she going to need these baskets full of $$MONEY$$ to go to the other side???
    I want to know? Below are the fees for a telephone reading from her and her son:

    Fees
    Phone reading with Sylvia – $850
    Phone reading with Chris – $500

    Wow! Where that money is going to go? I need some myself.

74. melkrim
    March 5th, 2009 at 11:19 am

    

    Re: Sylvia Browne Prediction for 2008 Election Quote

    I think Sylvia abused the gift of prediction. So it was taken from her, because she became greedy.
    Quoting: Good Witch

    I think you may be right. She is real good at cold reading. I think she is too egotestical. She also predicted the withdrawal of a majority of the troops from Iraq. I have no prob w/her spirituality.

    I find it sad, that she charges so much. That reeks of greed.

75. nobody
    March 9th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    

    melkrim said:
    I have no prob w/her spirituality.
    I find it sad, that she charges so much. That reeks of greed.

    So, you have no problem with greedy spirituality? I don’t think you can be spiritual and greedy at the same time.

    So … if Sylvia is greedy …

76. A man of faith
    March 29th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    

    I’ve known of Christians and non-Christians who were concerned about the future, and what their purpose is in life.
    Any psychic like Sylvia Brown is not the place to find answers; believe me. Calling out to God our Father in prayer will help any one find out a person’s purpose, and give peace about one’s future as well as direction. As a Christian for most of my life I’ve just started learning more about God’s direction as I fullfill the Great Commisson. When I stepped out with personal evangelism I found distinct directions and warnings about working on the streets. Jesus said that His sheep would hear His voice. The voice of the Lord through the bible and prayer is easy to hear, and it always comes true. Who knows what is behind other’s “gifts”. There is a kingdom of light and a kingdom of darkness. One of the kingdom allows for grace through repentence because of the blood sacrifice of Jesus. The other kingdom has a boss that is a liar and a murderer from the beginning. Now who do you think a person should trust? A flat out liar who is trying to destroy a soul; or the law and truth giver who is trying to heal and save a soul. Which is better? Wake up and find out about the love of God which is perfect and isn’t a lie instead of people who are sinful and can be and do deceive.

77. Someone
    July 8th, 2009 at 9:08 am

    

    I agree with a man of faith, God is the answer to all of your questions. Seek him and he will lead the way for you.

78. Lisa Mains
    July 20th, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    

    This is an interesting topic because we’re examining everything thing from the fact that Sylvia Brown is a fraud to
    critical thinking. I am currently in a critical thinking class as we speak. There are many opinions on this topic, but let’s stick to the facts only. Yes, we all seem to want answers to our questions about what happens to a loved one upon passing over. But, the fact is noone really knows for sure. It is a private matter that we have to come to accept. that we are all nimo9rtal human beings. And wht anyone would gonto a stranger to ask these kinds of personl questions thinking she has all of life’s questions is beyond me. Especially if her readings have been proven to be innacurate.
    The fact is she is making a ton of money trying to provide us with what we want to hear.

79. Tya
    July 29th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    

    I really like Sylvia Browns books (or whoever writes them). I wondered about her accuracies on predictions so I found this site. It does make me very sad to hear about so many inaccuracies but years ago when her readings weren’t $800 a phone call (maybe $350 for a live reading) it sent red flags that maybe she wasn’t so much in it to help than for the money.

80. Tiffany C.
    December 15th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    

    I’ll leave it short and sweet….she’s a joke and i’m rolling laughing in the floor!! Someone should confront her with this….hahaha. And to the idiots who buy her crap….ya know what , she may not be psychic but she is clever enough to outsmart a bunch of idiots like you. Whatever, as long as stupid people exist, Sylvia Brown will scam them for money!

    hahahahah

81. Psychic Force 2012
    December 15th, 2009 at 5:59 pm

    

    find its Web today Wednesday in google looking for by . Buy this? have psychic force 2012. I borrowed this last year from my cousin for about 3-4 months, and played it a lot. Borrowed it later on, so I thought I should not buy it as psychic force 2012 is coming. I love psychic force 2012 but should I buy this?

82. MRSLADY
    January 1st, 2010 at 10:47 am

    

    JUST HOLD ON PEOPLE, SHE TOLD MICHEAL WAS GOING TO PASS, AND IT IS NOW 2010. SAVE THIS LIST!

83. MRSLADY
    January 1st, 2010 at 10:48 am

    

    AMIO ACIDS – CURE ALL?

84. twitterfools
    January 6th, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    

    Hey MRSLADY – you don’t have to yell.

85. john
    January 25th, 2010 at 4:33 pm

    

    It is good to see that not all disaster predictions come true but I believe in being prepared to survive real disasters not just the Mayan 2012 ones. I have my survival kit and food storage ready for any disaster.

86. Sandi Lee
    May 28th, 2010 at 5:26 pm

    

    I had a $700 reading from Sylvia Brown.
    She told me I would remain married forever to the man I was to and in an intimate relationship with him as well. We are divorced and had not been intimate but twice in Years….. She told me I would remain in the home I was living. I foreclosed and bought a new home. She told me my home I was in had many windows and trees- it did. She told me the adoption proceeding I was going through would be granted. We backed down and pulled it to a guardianship. She told me my daughter would get married in 3 years to a man named David. She married in 1 year to a man named Mike. She told me my son would marry in 2 years to a women named Susie. He did aprox marry within that time, to a women named Jasmine. She told me one oldest son would divorce in one year. Four years later they are just filling for a divorce. There were many other bits and pieces un varifiable at this time or may be ever. Past lives, deaths, etc….. Would have been nice if she would have said your brother is going to blow his brains out and maybe there are ways you can help him more- rather then say the heavy women in your life has to have her blood sugar checked. Duh. who does not have a heavy women in their family and if they are heavy, of course they should have blood sugar checked. A WASTE of $700. Sandi 05/28/2010

87. Steven
    June 17th, 2010 at 4:27 pm

    

    Hey Sandi,

    thank you very much for your information! i believe that Sylvia was quite good at one time, up until about 1999. She seems to be putting out a book every few months now, rehashing the topics and themes she’s written about in previous books. i saw a book two years ago just before Christmas time, it was titled, Sylvia Browne’s Book of Chirstmas Prayers, or something like that. one page had a picture of what Christ may look like and directly opposite it was a picture of Sylvia! so i guess they’re equals now?! i’m really disappointed in her; it’s all about money now but, she has to learn her lessons too.

88. Janet
    July 7th, 2010 at 1:16 pm

    

    Two words for Sylvia Browne…Shawn Hornbeck! That is all.

89. Episode 26 – Dr. Strangelove « Everyone’s a Critic
    March 10th, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    

    [...] it is an absolute failure and gives it a .67. Tom and Cecil visit the psychics again and talk about yearly predictions. They finish up with a critical reinterpretation of Missy Elliott’s – “Ching a [...]

90. cili taylor robertson
    April 5th, 2011 at 5:14 am

    

    You can try to discredit Sylvia all you want. You haven’t changed my mind one bit. I would still love to meet this very special person.

91. SURVIVING DISASTER
    April 8th, 2011 at 3:31 am

    

    got it,a excellent sharing,I learn much from your post,thanks.

92. Miselle
    January 10th, 2012 at 11:46 am

    

    In fairness, Sylvia got a couple more hits, albeit not in 2007. She got her prediction of a black President; a Democrat being voted in; Liz Taylor passing; Marc and JLO breaking up… I still would not say that it gives her credibility… but just saying.

93. Eli
    January 23rd, 2012 at 2:03 am

    

    If psychics can really predict the future why don’t they just “see” the future winning lotto numbers and make themselves millionaires instead of charging exorbitant prices for their lies? Oh, that’s right — they can’t use it for self gain. Yeah right! Did you read about the psychic in California who was killed in a home invasion? She didn’t see that one coming! It’s a true story.