I am really divided to whether he is real or false, I mean he does some pretty accurate details, even to what their hobbies and what they ate! But at the back of my mind I just think he’s as fake as an astrologist. What do you think?
I know he’s fake.
James Randi has spent decades debunking such frauds. Check his site out for how Jonathan Edward’s scam works.
UnuMondo
His debunking of Uri geller was outstanding!
He’s entirely real. Conclusive proof.
Please can we have a bit of the following:[ul][]How?[]What?[]Why?[]When?[]Which?[]Where?Who?[/ul]
Fake.
Also despicable, sleazy, unprincipled, predacious, callous, and venal. I could be wrong, of course.
But I’m not.
Don’t say that, he gives people hope, and peace of mind! :eek:
:rolleyes: Sadly, a lot of people would approve of him lying to people in order to make them feel better, so the fact that he’s essentially a fraud doesn’t seem a problem to some.
If psychic hotlines have to call their product entertainment, why doesn’t Edward have to do the same?
UnuMondo
Because its not entertaining!
You don’t seem seem to be referring to this chap, or the one that everton posted.
I shall continue posting this until someone tells me.
If he is fake, though how does he amass such information about very few people?
Did you even visit Randi’s site? Essentially he uses the following methods:
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His staff records the chit-chat of people waiting for the performance to start. Usually this includes people talking about the dead whom they hope Edwards will put them in contact with.
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He pokes around a lot:
Edwards: “I’m getting a g, a g, did you have a brother whose name starts with a g”?
Poor sucker: I had a brother named Clyde
E: Oh, a “c”! That’s right! And did your brother die of cancer?
PS: No, of heart disease
E: Yes, both are terrible illnesses.
Do you see it now? Please visit Randi’s site. We at the Straight Dope like to fight ignorance, and we can recommend Randi’s site as the best resource for debunking these types of things thoroughly.
UnuMondo
OK please, people, like a bad surgeon, I’m losing my patience.
The host of the show “Crossing Over”, where he does a mixture of cold reads, clever editing, and relying on wishful thinking to make folks in the audience thing he’s conversing with their dead relatives.
His name is actually John Edward.
gee whiz, my deceased grnadmother Told me Edwards was real…
Hurrah! Thank you Telemark.
Vanilla!
I wish I could remember who it was, but someone said, “If my dead grandmother wanted to communicate with me, I don’t think she’d bother playing 20 Questions.” Absolutely right.
Fake.
note:
I was kidding.
His4Ever!