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Popular psychic who claims to communicate with dead people. Host of the "Crossing Over" TV show.
Edward begins by selecting a section of the studio audience of about 20 people, saying things like "I'm getting a George over here. I don't know what this means. George could be someone who passed over, he could be someone here, he could be someone that you know," etc. Of course such generalizations lead to a "hit" where someone indeed knows a George, or is related to a George, or is a George. Now that he's targeted his mark, the real reading begins in which Edward employs cold reading, warm reading, and hot reading techniques.
 How the Mass Media Package and Sell Psychic Medium John Edward By Matt Nisbet John Edward: Hustling the Bereaved Skeptical Inquirer, November/December 2001 Shooting crap Subtitled, "Alleged psychic John Edward actually gambles on hope and basic laws of statistics." By By Shari Waxman, Salon.com, June 13, 2002
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