Skeptic Magazine editor Michael Shermer’s exposé of How Psychics and Mediums Work: a case study of James Van Praagh. “Throughout much of 1998 and 1999, the best-selling book in America was by a man who says he can talk to the dead (and so can you, if you buy his book).” Shermer concludes, “The freedom to grieve and love is one of the fundamentals of being human. To try to take tht freedom away on a chimera of feigned hope and promises that cannot be filled is inhuman…”