Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

[Barry Karr <SkeptInq@AOL.COM>]

Exonerating the Friedmans

Skeptics of hypnosis and "recovered memory therapy" will know that Arnold and Jesse Friedman were probably innocent. So did the documentary filmmaker who captured their story: He just decided not to say it.

Chris Mooney; July 7, 2003

http://www.csicop.org/doubtandabout/friedmans/

Andrew Jarecki's debut documentary Capturing the Friedmans, which features startling home videos of a family falling apart under police investigation, has received the sort of critical acclaim generally reserved for instant classics. Friedmans not only won the 2003 Sundance Film Festival documentary prize; recently The New Yorker called it "one of the most heartbreaking films ever made about an American family." The New York Times liked Friedmans so much that it reviewed it twice. Elvis Mitchell gave two thumbs up; so did columnist-critic Frank Rich, who wrote that "Capturing the Friedmans is the most compelling American movie I've seen in ages, and one of the most astonishing debut features ever."


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and on the Quackwatch.com website:

Sylvia Browne: Psychic Guru or Quack?

Bryan Farha, Ed.D.

Most assuredly you've heard the phrase "innocent until proven guilty." I'm pretty much a believer in that saying. Our legal system is built around it -- and justifiably so. But what if an alleged psychic makes three promises on international television to test her extraordinary claims, yet makes no effort to do so? Should the phrase for that person become "guilty until proven innocent?" In any event, I'm referring to one of the most popular "spiritual mediums" in the country -- if not the world. Sylvia Browne -- herein after referred to simply as "Sylvia."

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