Question:
Which of so called 'psychic' Sylvia Browne's failed predictions are the most funny?
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2020-04-01 12:55:11 UTC
I rather like this one - “Telemarketers will have long since vanished by 2015”

https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/sylvia-brownes-bogus-coronavirus-prophecies/ 
Six answers:
Robin W
2020-04-04 21:28:26 UTC
She wasn't funny.  She was a ghoul that took advantage of people who were grieving and the world is better off without her in it.
Jesere
2020-04-02 14:57:07 UTC
Are you always right? She was human.
Dr. NG
2020-04-01 17:03:02 UTC
The funniest predictions aren't the failed, they're the ones her fans say were accurate. The latest COVID-19 is a great example.
2020-04-01 13:20:20 UTC
Almost all of them have been replaced by robots, so in that sense she was right, maybe a little off with the exact date. 





Cards on the table: I don't believe anyone is or was a psychic. I do believe that skeptics are the worst when it comes to honesty. If Browne is off by a few years then she is a fraud,they claim. No, she was off by a few years. Skeptics set up criteria, e.g. accurate predictions, then when the criteria looks like it's being met, they move the goalposts, e.g. "she didn't get the year right." 





This dishonesty was most prominently on display in the Skeptical Inquirer Magazine which when confronted with astrologer Robert Zoller's prediction that the US would be attacked on the east Coast in September 2001, which he made several times - the latest months before the attacks.  They  immediately said the prediction wasn't valid because he didn't give an exact date, or an exact location and a whole host of other stupid objections. So it's "You can't do it and if you do it, it doesn't count because ..." This is also known as a priori reasoning.  It can't be true, so it isn't true. While the, frankly, stupidity of skeptics doesn't prove the validity of psychics or astrologers, it does rule out skeptics as having value. Skepticism today is largely a combination of ignorance and dishonesty.  That's nothing to be proud of.From the enlightened comments>Give us a prediction Gary?
2020-04-01 13:01:08 UTC
She got the date wrong, but they are certainly on their way out.



Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations prohibit telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers without prior consent. Automated dialers are standard in the industry, so most telemarketers are barred from calling consumers' cell phones without their consent.
2020-04-01 12:58:53 UTC
She predicted her own death at age 88.  The famous liar died at age 77.



In general I don't find her predictions funny.  She told the mother of a kidnapped daughter that the daughter was dead.  The daughter was found alive 2 years later and Sylvia excused herself by saying "Only God is right 100% of the time".  NOT FUNNY.


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