{"id":95,"date":"2007-03-14T12:45:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T17:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2007-03-14T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T17:45:52","slug":"randi-nails-browne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/randi-nails-browne\/","title":{"rendered":"Randi &#8220;Nails&#8221; Browne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since they cancelled Penn Jillette&#8217;s awesome radio show, I&#8217;ve been suffering from skeptic withdrawal. So I&#8217;ve returned to an old standby: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Randi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s given up the idea of taking all comers for his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JREF\">million dollar challenge<\/a> to focus on big-name psychics and pseudoscientists.\u00c2\u00a0 One of his current targets is Slyvia Browne, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopsylviabrowne.com\/articles\/montel_911fireman.shtml\">beclawed<\/a> uber-psychic who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopsylviabrowne.com\/articles\/montel_shawnhornbeck.shtml\">told <\/a><span class=\"mw-headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopsylviabrowne.com\/articles\/montel_shawnhornbeck.shtml\">Shawn Hornbeck&#8217;s folks that their son was dead<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here, Randi notes that Sylvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randi.org\/jr\/2007-03\/030907bomb.html#i1\">really missed<\/a> with another vision:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It would be difficult to find  another equally bad example of a divination. <em>Everything<\/em> about it was wrong. Browne brought grief and pain to Lynda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family, leading them to expect a good outcome to their problem.\u00c2\u00a0 But what totally damns Browne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretensions to psychic power is the fact that David Repasky, the murderer of Lynda McClelland, the mother of these children, was <em>sitting there in the  audience right in front of Browne<\/em> when she came up with this callous  declaration on the Montel Williams Show, Browne didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sense\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that  fact!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shoulda seen that comi&#8230;on never mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since they cancelled Penn Jillette&#8217;s awesome radio show, I&#8217;ve been suffering from skeptic withdrawal. So I&#8217;ve returned to an old standby: James Randi. He&#8217;s given up the idea of taking all comers for his million dollar challenge to focus on big-name psychics and pseudoscientists.\u00c2\u00a0 One of his current targets is Slyvia Browne, the beclawed uber-psychic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-1x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}