John Edward did his “psychic reading” on Dr. Phil this past week. I do not believe in psychic mediums or psychics at all. I think these are people who read people to some degree, and use people for pure profit.

I have yet to watch one person in nine years who I believe. Not one.

When I watch this segment with John Edward, if you watch it closely, he is playing statistical odds in an audience (that people will relate to generic statements), asking for them to fill-in-the-blanks, etc.

When he talks about a fire, he watches facial expressions. If I say fire to a victim, there is likely going to be a response on a person’s face affected by a traumatic fire. He then waits for people to give him signals. You notice he asks them to answer a lot of questions, too.

The two women talk about a woman who was dismembered and burnt. The John acts like its psychic to then later say, “Did this make the news?” Of course it would. You don’t need psychic abilities to say that!

John says he sees an older male energy and he waits for them to come up with someone. It’s playing on their emotions! And then he says he sees “smoke and fire” — DUH! That’s not psychic. And then he plays on it more by saying it “has to do with their passing”. Well, DUH, again! They told us that.

Then he talks about the fire being set to get rid of evidence. Most crimes of dismemberment and fire are usually for that purposes. Hello. That’s just a good logical deduction.  Score for John Edward:  Zero.

When he says is someone now pregnant, and that again, is likely to get a hit.  If not with these women, with someone near by. He waits for a hit!  When you look at the ages of these women, their children are close to that age or will have cousin who is–so its a sure fire hit again. He let’s the women fill in the blanks. Nothing shocking going on.

When he finds out that the crime victim was pregnant, he says there were two people. Yeah, hello, of course they will find a connection. Usually a pregnant woman has a spouse or a boyfriend, and if she was killed, they either killed her or got killed. Good guessing, right?

So then John asks again, “So I don’t know if we are talking about two people involved in this case?” You see, he knows NOTHING. He has to ask everything or make logical deductions to move forward.

I find this so disturbing!

He then brings up “S” names. Most people can come up with someone, but these two fail to do so. Then later they make a connection. They will always make a connection, if they believe. He catches people in the heat of the moment, in need of answers, who are emotional! They are the most vulnerable victims.  They will find understanding. They need it for comfort.

Keep watching.

He has to ask people a ton of questions because he truly has nothing. Then he watches their faces, reads what he can, makes logical assumptions and asks more questions. He loves these women because they are “true believers”–his best candidates. When he gets someone who shows doubt, I can assure you he moves on quickly. That’s part of the game.

John then asks if there is a similarity in the two cases. Hello! Yes! Both are murders!! We know that already. What a dumb statement.

Then he brings up DNA. Well in any crime, isn’t DNA going to be a topic of discussion? It sure is!  Nothing psychic there.

I find this utterly creepy.

When John Edwards says there is a younger female, and the women in blue offers doubt, he moves on right away! He has to find a subject who bites and statistically speaking some young woman will find a correlation, and boom, you think John is psychic. Do you see the game?

And now the believers remember someone with an “S” or an “Sk” — nothing shocking at all but boy if you didn’t take statistical odds and averages, you might believe wow! But the amount of people who know someone with an “S” or an “Sk” is quite high.

Every now and then, it will look like he knows something, but he just got a lucky hit– a true believer who thought through things, or made a good correlation for him. It is likely to happen statistically–no magical odds.

If a true psychic or medium existed, they could do readings behind a curtain and never see the people they are giving a reading to, but as you see that never happens. For a reason.

Sadly, I believe I could do this to people, and pray on their emotions and vulnerabilities and be wildly rich, but I have a conscience that won’t let me pray on victims like this. I couldn’t do it and I could lie and get rich off of the vulnerabilities of other people. I would feel like slime, and rather be dead.

Please if you are tempted to go to a psychic medium or a psychic, don’t waste your money. It’s pure rubbish.