Skeptic (Altadena, CA)

Randi's heart condition: was psychic Sylvia Browne right?

IN A 2001 EPISODE OF CNN's Larry King Live, psychic Sylvia Browne stated that skeptic James Randi should have his heart checked out. Shortly after the January 2006 Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas, Randi experienced a heart attack and underwent bypass surgery, and is currently on the road to recovery. On April 9, 2006 I received the following email from a stranger, presumably sent because I have been rather outspoken about Sylvia Browne in recent years:

This email is in reference to something that is said on your website [referring to an article I wrote, which was published at the quackwatch .org website and can be seen at http://www.quackwatch.org/11 Ind/browne.html]:

"Later in the program [Larry King Live, 9-3-01], Browne said that Randi needed to see a doctor because he had a problem in his left ventricle (the chamber in the heart from which the blood is squeezed out into the body's general circulation). Soon afterward, Randi saw a cardiac surgeon, who found no problem."

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