Psychic Charlatan Sylvia Browne Dies… Good Riddance
Posted by mattusmaximus on November 21, 2013
The title of this blog post may seem harsh, but when it comes to douchebag charlatans who bilk the desperate and grieving out of their money, self-declared psychic Sylvia Browne was the bottom of the proverbial dung-heap. And now she’s dead. Ironically, in 2003 she predicted that she would die at the age of 88, yet she died 11 years earlier than that…
Good riddance to bad rubbish (image source)
Over the course of writing this blog, I have dedicated some posts specifically to the late Ms. Browne in order to point out just how much of a self-aggrandizing and deceitful person she was, claiming to have psychic powers and often failing spectacularly in her “predictions” (none of which she ever apologized for, even given the pain she caused). In honor of her death, I shall reproduce those posts below in the hopes that people do not celebrate her as a “lost light to the world” or similar rubbish. Rather, it is my hope that people take the time to reflect upon Ms. Browne’s life and death and think carefully about just how much damage she did by hoodwinking the most gullible and vulnerable among us. Hopefully, perhaps people will be a bit more skeptical of the next psychic scumbag who comes along.
The Skeptical Teacher 
Steve said
Now that she is in the afterlife she is having to eat her words and take responsibility for her unethical behavior. She is now with her long lost love Paul Kurtz and they are having a wonderful time planning their next incarnation.
Sarah said
I think by doing this you are being disrespectful to her family. We’re all entitled to our opinions, but I think it’s in poor taste what you are doing. Obviously, you are not a Christian because your words a hateful.
Kaleo said
She was an evil predator that preyed on the weak minded now she is burning in hell where she belongs – How is that for poor tast and hatefull?
Woody said
Indeed Kaleo, the truth is not always tasteful, pleasant and tolerant of fraudulence is it? … but it is the truth (although I don’t know if or where she might be burning!)
All the best,
Woody
Michael HylandMichael said
Sarah, don’t you think it was a little disrespectful for that woman to lie to so many families? At leas this is the truth, finally. Don’t drag religion into it …she made her choices, and we are all free to comment on them. Her public persona and disingenuous business is not one worth celebrating.
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