James Randi joined me on my America Weekend show today to talk about the Sylvia Browne connection to the Cleveland kidnapping story. As you may know, she used her “psychic” powers in 2004 to tell Louwana Miller that her daughter, Amanda Berry (who had been missing for a year at the time), was dead. This […]
I have railed many times on this blog against Sylvia Browne, an evil woman who claims to have psychic powers and preys on people who come to her at their most vulnerable emotional times for help. This week’s news from Cleveland of the rescue of Amanda Berry, Gina De Jesus, and Michelle Knight (each of whom […]
My friend Phil Plait is an astronomer, author of “Death From The Skies,” columnist for Slate.com, and frequent guest on my radio show. Today on America Weekend, Phil asked why our government is attacking science — from a climate-change-denying Republican chairman of the House science committee, to a state legislature (Louisiana) that thinks creationism should […]
As a followup to the conviction of James McCormick, the con man who made tens of millions selling bogus bomb detectors to Iraq, I invited Lt. Colonel Hal Bidlack on to my America Weekend show. Hal is a retired Air Force officer and national security aide who, in the fall of 2009 (at the request […]
I’m happy to report that James McCormick has been convicted of fraud. Three years ago, James Randi was on my radio show to talk about a horrible scam being perpetrated by McCormick involving fake bomb detectors. His Advanced Detection Equipment was purchased in large quantities by the governments of Iraq, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and […]
Yesterday, in introducing Julia Belluz for her expose on Dr. Oz, I mentioned an ABC News show about “John Of God,” which I said aired ten or fifteen years ago. Checking my archives, I discovered it actually aired just under eight years ago, on February 10, 2005. That show’s lack of skepticism about this faith […]