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Muse
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: five minutes behind everyone else
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Robert:
Just wanted to add my cheers and congratulations to the others. I was extremely impressed with your paper at TAM4. When I got home, I devoured the entire StopKaz site, and I was even MORE impressed with how fair and factual the entire site was. You just put all the facts out there and let people make up their own minds. Reading your report was a thrill. It must have been an entirely awesome week. (And, unfortunately, it sounds like you missed a whole chunk of the TAM speakers). But I agree - next year, you deserve space on the main stage. We couldn't attend TAM this year, but I'll be looking forward to the next TAM. ETA - never mind |
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AKA TEEK
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Up Myself
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Great work Russell (that's an in-joke between me and RSL that the rest of you can't share, so gerroff).
I think it's probably worth investing some of those dollars in a cheap laptop with wireless capability though, as the Riv Wifi charges were about $10 for the room ![]() Wish I'd known you needed internet access, there were loads of people with laptops who had paid for WiFi in their rooms ![]() Looking forward to the next stage (as has been predicted, perhaps the retirement of Ms Browne?). Keep up the awesome work! |
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Happy-go-lucky Heretic
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Casa del Whacko
Posts: 6,142
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Here's a prediction: When Sylvia Browne retires she will claim it is to recharge her spent energies or some such nonsense, she will not give credit to Mssrs. Randi and Lancaster for exposing her actions to public light.
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Stupidity is a condition. Ignorance is a choice. - Wiley All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw God is evil. As soon as you accept that, it all makes sense. - Sledge |
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NLH
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 25,885
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Robert , you were on my "must meet " list for months before TAM- even before you began the SB site. I was honoured to shake your substantial paw.
(The 55c was actually 40c, by the way. I thought we had to add sales tax to everything ). The combination of unremitting politeness and withering detail you have brought to both the Kaz and the SB sites is powerful. The lady seems to be on the back foot right now. Isn't it great that boy turned up alive - and wouldn't it be appropriate if the parents could sue SB into bankruptcy? Thanks for the background details of what was going on at TAM. The atmosphere in the conference room , the evening of the Anderson Cooper show is a memory I will treasure. |
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Inquisitor
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Scotland, West Coast
Posts: 1,232
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Thanks for sharing your memories of the week with us RSL. It really helps us poor unfortunates who can't attend feel like we're part of TAM.
Oh, I am using one of your quips from a post you made here last Summer as my new sig. - hope you don't mind! |
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"Well, if it matters not to you how things are phrased, nor whether they make any logical sense, then here is my answer to your question: Twenty-seven rumbly-tumblies in a tinhorn fandango." - Robert S Lancaster Stop Sylvia Browne |
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Salem, Oregon
Posts: 15,531
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Thanks, TJ. And thanks for the ten spot as well.
![]() My kids would beg to differ, but thank, Luci! There is a perverse sort of logic there, I'll grant you that. Back atcha, Gravy! I was hoping you'd be at TAM so I could shake your hand Thanks, ELGS! Thanks, DD! It's hard to remember a week that was that full of surreal experiences, that's for sure! And thanks for the kind words. Thanks, Teek!
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Who is "Kaz?" Read about her at www.StopKaz.com. Curious about Sylvia Browne? Read about her at www.StopSylvia.com. Ever wonder "What's the Harm?" with psychics, alternative medicine, etc? |
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Scholar
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Irvine, CA, USA
Posts: 90
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I really enjoyed your talk last year on Kaz, (and even wrote about it on my skeptical blog), and I am really proud of what you've done with the fraud Sylvia Browne. It's a testament to what one individual can do with the connections all of us have made through the JREF and through TAMs. Great job!
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Banned
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Las Vegas, NV (and the ethers of cyberspace)
Posts: 15,786
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Thanks so much RSL, for letting us live the glory with you. I was as pleased as can be, and felt like I was in on the biggest scoop ever--
I think this will have powerful rippling effects--and combined with James Randi's changes to the challenge, I think we skeptics have much to look forward to this year. I wonder how many new members we got at the JREF website since the CNN interview. It's all over the web. Congratulations--I think a lot of eyes were opened, and a lot of skeptical seeds were planted. |
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Muse
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 578
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RSL,
I saw your CNN performance and thought that you spoke very well. You seemed calm and collected, even though your heart must have been racing! Great job! |
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Raccoon Death Squad Leader
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Southeast of Disorder
Posts: 6,996
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Fantastic, Robert, absolutely fantastic. You are a hero!
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"Our history is in part a battle to the death of inadequate myths" - Carl Sagan Even Mother TeresaWP doubted. |
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Banned
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 26,985
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Rob, you know how much kudos I give you, man, starting with Kaz as a warm-up. So from downunder, a great big YOU *****' BEWDIE MATE!
But folks, this is just the start, not the end. Sylvia won't go down without a fight, we are sure of that. Unlike Kaz who was a lightweight, Sylvia needs to be pursued relentlessly, and not just by Rob but by skeptics and fair-minded people all. Rob is just the spearhead - we need to help him out as much as we can and be the spear, any way we can, not just with money. And the way to take down Sylvia Browne is publicity - publicity exposing her tawdry act and behaviour, as Rob and Randi have just done. Girl_6 and Rebecca have their respective audiences focused, and I'm aware that other fora have seen fit to give Rob airtime too. Can we do more? I'm sure we all know somehow somewhere we can do our bit to spread the word. So don't just sit back and watch Rob fight the lone fight - get in there and help him! |
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Scholar
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Posts: 100
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D.D.D.
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: In a den in my lair, on the edge of your mind.
Posts: 9,166
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Wow! Just... wow!
I know, I'm late jumping on this one - been busy playing CoH all weekend, you know. But I just saw the CNN spot on YouTube and... WOW! Great, great work, Robert! BTW - I'm sure you're aware of this already - StopSylviaBrowne.com ranks fourth on a Google search for 'sylvia browne', just behind the Wiki entry and two of the slime's own website spots. That's not too shabby! And the YouTube segment is on the front page, too... Ya can't beat that! Maybe it's almost time for a 'StopMontelWilliams.com' site? heh I can just see the situation in fifty years, at the RLEF website (Lancaster.org)... "We're offering $1,000,000,000,000 to any psychic or spiritualist who can survive our '10 Fatal Tests' challenge! Just accurately predict which fatal trap you are about to face, ten times in a row...." Ah, dream the good dream, eh? |
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Salem, Oregon
Posts: 15,531
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Yes, the help, support and encouragement I've gotten from JREF and the forum in particular, has been key.
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Had someone written all of that week into a movie, nobody would believe it. It was just too perfect!
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I was an odd combination of nervous as hell and very calm. Luckily, the calm part was on the outside!
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Thanks, Skeptic Guy. (Consults Aussie-to-English dictionary...) Ah! Thanks, Zep! ![]() Wow, choirs! Thanks, Lee. Thanks, zaay!
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Who is "Kaz?" Read about her at www.StopKaz.com. Curious about Sylvia Browne? Read about her at www.StopSylvia.com. Ever wonder "What's the Harm?" with psychics, alternative medicine, etc? |
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Gentleman of leisure
Tagger
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Planet Earth
Posts: 17,172
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How about it? Keep good records for a few years and then you can get someone to make a movie plus a book about you and your efforts.
While I think of it how about updating your other website (stopKes)? To let everyone know she is no longer active, partly due to your efforts.
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Sorth Dakonsin
Posts: 11,379
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Banned
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Las Vegas, NV (and the ethers of cyberspace)
Posts: 15,786
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Please keep us updated on the ripples from this RSL!
(And, Alfaniner, I promise to spell your name right from now on...the TAM looks Tamtastic. )
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Salem, Oregon
Posts: 15,531
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Who is "Kaz?" Read about her at www.StopKaz.com. Curious about Sylvia Browne? Read about her at www.StopSylvia.com. Ever wonder "What's the Harm?" with psychics, alternative medicine, etc? |
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Muse
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 776
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How were the vids that I uploaded on my site?
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Salem, Oregon
Posts: 15,531
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Who is "Kaz?" Read about her at www.StopKaz.com. Curious about Sylvia Browne? Read about her at www.StopSylvia.com. Ever wonder "What's the Harm?" with psychics, alternative medicine, etc? |
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