If you only believe, then you will be fooled. ESP doesn’t work better when believers around. Believers are more gullible. John Edward with an audience full of skeptics wouldn’t be able to do anything. They’d question what he was doing. He can’t very well have that, can he? No, he has to get people who will unwaveringly believe in him and fill in the answers.

Psychic powers don’t fade over time. That’s a property of probability. Flip a coin twice. You have a good chance of getting both right. Flip a coin ten times. It gets a little harder. Flip a coin a thousand times. You don’t have a chance. Rigorous testing proves that so-called psychic powers are flukes. Luck.

John Edward is a charlatan. And not a very good one, at that. Edited tape. Any technique to get information before the show. Notice how he covers his ass by saying that nothing’s definite. Perhaps nothing is definite because everything is a guess! Why do you think he’s on the science-fiction channel?

This guy can’t speak to spirits. He (pitifully) uses a technique called cold reading. In a series of rapid-fire questions, he asks about common things, then moves down to more specific items. Of course, all the hits are remembered, but the misses are not. I, myself, was able to do a cold reading okay, even though I had no experience.

I need to get a book on cold reading so I can do it well. Hey, and maybe if I practice cold reading enough, the ghosts of dead people will actually come to me because they don’t want me to be a charlatan. Then, you can get real messages from dead loved ones. If you only believe…