Thanks to the fools who keep jerks in the market!

John Edward is probably one of the hottest psychic mediums in the U.S. He says he can communicate with the dead. But is he truly gifted with this power or he just has a game plan? There is a year long waiting list to get in his TV show, Crossing-Over. Just check out here to see how his time is all booked almost everywhere in States. His four best sellers is on the market now. His critics say that he is taking advantage of people who have beloved ones passed away and desperately seeking a way to comfort their heart.

He says he doesn’t see dead people. He claims he gets a sense, a thought in his head, feelings, and he interprets them. He says he feels the energy.

He does it like this: he rubs his hands together, closes his eyes, meditates and concentrates. After a bit of silence he starts firing a barrage of words.

Some skeptics say psychic mediums like John Edward just use a technique called "cold reading." They've used it for hundreds of years to make people believe them. Here comes the way his trick works: He first pretends that a dead person is talking to him and a conversation like this happens between him and an old woman:
- It's an older man, someone very close to you?
- My father?
- Does this month, November, hold a special significance?
- My birthday's in November!
- Right, because he's saying, "Tell her 'Happy Brithday.'"
- What else does he say?
- He saying "the money. Stop worrying about the money."
- Oh my God! My sister and I have been fighting over his inheritance.

He just started with something really vague. He chose an older man because he is betting that, based on this woman's age, her father is most likely dead. But if her father wasn't dead, he could still say it was some other older man. He just asked her if November meant anything. Her father could have died in November, or Thanksgiving could have been really special for them. But he goes with the birthday and validate it now, as if he knew, by saying "He wishes you a Happy Birthday." When a father dies, inheritance is usually an issue, and money is something everyone worries about.

Michael Shermer, author of Why people believe wierd things and a serious critic of Edward says: “Anybody can talk to the dead, getting them to talk back is the hard part!!”

In fact, Edward bombards audience with names and initials, until one of them hits the spot and turns out to be associated with someone in the audience. One moment he pours out an entire sentence of the dead, another moment he can’t hear the names and keeps saying:” I hear J, like John, Jack, Jane,…” Why is that? Apparantly, he says just a bunch of random names until somebody in the audience gets the right one! He also passes some information about disease, but there are certain standard! disease which are very common like heart disease, cancer,…and if you name them, one of them will eventually turn out true!

Survey says 60 millions of Americans believe in him!!!