UPDATE: I just found out this segment has been postponed. I’ll post a new schedule when I find out more.
I just heard that James "The Amazing" Randi will be on CNN’s Anderson Cooper tonight again, after he schooled the evil witch Sylvia Browne a few days ago on the same show. Woohoo!
I’ll have more about Randi on the blog tonight. Think videoblog. 
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January 24th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Sadly, it’s been postponed.
January 24th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Randi’s living up to his promise. He is getting more aggressive, being more active in the media, bringing the fight to them instead of letting them come to him. And that is what he needs to do. It has become clear that these people know that they cannot pass a real test of their abilities so they will never, ever, under any circumstances allow themselves to undergo one. They may agree to a challenge, but all any of the followers will hear is the agreement, never that the challenge never took place. And if they do hear, these people always have several (usually contradictory) excuses as to why they won’t do it. So he is on the offensive.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:51 am
I’d like to know when this interview is gonna be on. I didn’t catch the first one because I rarely watch AC360 so I’m excited to know that he won’t let the subject drop. If more people out there started to challenge these con artists then that might open people’s minds up to the truth: That These People Are Fakes! Frauds! Con Artists! My Grandmother is a firm believer in this “person”(and I use that term loosely) because of the reaction by people and the fact that she’s on the MW show every week.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
It’s all very well and good that James Randi challenging Sylvia Browne. Very laudable. But why aren’t people challenging Montel Williams and Larry King, their production teams and the networks themselves for promoting this psychic drivel. While it’s unbelievably sad that anyone is credulous enough to believe in psychic powers, it’s utterly despicable that tv presenters and the networks, in whom the public trusts, conspire with charlatans and con artists to encourage and profit handsomely from that credulity.
This is the country where a bare breast or expletive on tv is regarded as corrupting, yet the likes of Sylvia Browne and other liars are allowed to practice their deception, indeed are paid to do it, on prime time tv as a matter of course. Unbelievable. What a f***ed up country!
February 24th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Well said pv,
The hypocrisy nauseates me. I look forward to seeing the first TV evangelist in court on fraud charges. It has long been said that a fool and his money are easily parted. Perhaps these charlatans are merely redistributing wealth from the stupid to the clever, but when they are dealing with traumatised people who have lost loved ones they are preying on people at their most vulnerable. People who would give ANYTHING for even a glimmer of hope that they could communicate with their lost or dead child. Sylvia Browne is among these and she is cruel enough to MAKE UP even more traumatising details that later prove to be wrong. She should be locked up.
June 5th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Knocking Sylvia, Randi is a bum, he does nothing but rip into people, has he ever helped anybody, he’s the kind of guy who would watch a old lady fall down and start telling everybody we should take better care of our senior citizen’s. I see he did his weasly best to cut Sylvia Browne down again, this time he was on her because she takes money for doing the work she does, well damm Randi, don’t you get paid. Mr. Randi points out the bad points about Sylvia when the first thing she says is God is the only one who doe’snt make mistakes. Randi do you remember the first time you met Sylvia, she said you need your heart checked out, it’s seriously, and did’nt you have emergency heart surgery shortly afterwords, of course, if Sylvia tells you it it’s gotta be B.S. Mr. Randi, you claim to use all the facts, why have’nt you gone to the police and listed all the police cases she has helped out on, why not give her credit to at the least teaching about God’s work, the Bible. Mr. Randi, you can go to HELL, why don’t you go have your heart attack and spare us your negative, threatening ways, no you don’t scare me, take of the mask Randi, let’s see what a real man you really are tuff guy, obviously not God loving.