[Doc Savage]

I am always amazed by this fat stooge Sylvia Browne when she’s on Oprah. (Not that I watch Oprah, but let’s face it, blistering through a hundred channels over and over again you do see things!) All these nitwit women sit there nodding their heads as this moron prattles off the most general of predictions: “I see great happiness for you; I see saddness for you; the next year will be troublesome; you will have a problem with money...................and on, and on, and on. What a bunch of dolts!

[cripplecreek]

Predicting an assasination attempt is pretty standard fare for “psychics”. Basically they predict it for every president and eventually somebody tries.

[Rockingham]

Sylvia Browne embarrassed herself badly on Coast to Coast AM one night by claiming to have known that men trapped in a mine collapse would be found alive. Unfortunately for Sylvia and the miners, the news report was incorrect and the miners were almost all dead.

Here's an account and audio clip of the episode.

Here is an unflattering account by a skeptical reporter who went on one of Sylvia Browne's cruises for the credulous.

The bottom line: if Sylvia Browne has any psychic talent at all, its is hopelessly obscured by self-promotion, humbuggery, and outright fraud.

[hennie pennie]

"I see... before you a time of love and laughter, and ofcourse some tears & sadness, too. There will be a tall dark handsome women or perhaps a short pale blond, but MAYBE ... both! You will encounter exceptional opportunites this year, but you must be prepared. There will be a death that touches you deeply, but not in your immediate family, but someone whom you admire from the newspapers or the movies. Weather will be troublesome and annoy you greatly on one of the weekends during the summer months. After you overcome a few obstacles, great success will be yours.

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I'm unsure how they can keep up this prattle, and all with a straight face -- me, I'd be laughing if I sounded like some mechanized fortune cookie, I wouldn't be able to stop from giggling at how trite & silly I sounded.

It's my impression that skeptics who have kept track records of S.Browne have found her extremely inaccurate.