Psychic Defective: Sylvia Browne’s History of Failure

Agatha Jadwiszczok, Ryan Shaffer

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Agatha Jadwiszczok

Agatha Jadwiszczok is a senior at Hunter College. She has been researching Sylvia Browne for the past three years, including for the Web site StopSylvia.com.

Ryan Shaffer

Ryan Shaffer is a writer and historian. He has a PhD in history and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Global Studies at Stony Brook University in New York.