Robert Lancaster, one of the pioneers of internet-based skeptical activism, died September 7, 2019. Lancaster, a Los Angeles–based computer programmer, was perhaps best known as the founder of a website dedicated to exposing alleged psychic (and convicted felon) Sylvia Browne.
Robert Lancaster with Susan Gerbic at TAM 2008. Photo by Paulina Mejia.
He collected an exhaustive database on Browne, including transcripts of her appearances on The Montel Williams Show, where she often appeared. As Susan Gerbic, who collaborated with him, noted: