If mediums could truly do what they say they can, then there would be a much larger pack of mediums, not your stereotypical; late-50's; carnival medium. If there was genetics involved, that is, unless they get their powers from another source, I cannot see how it isn't genetics that has granted them this "power.
What I'm trying to get at though is they wouldn't be viewed in common society as "possible" - they've been around for hundreds-and-hundreds of years. If it was real, we would've seen these people as God's, not as buffoons.
Its a very easy way to take telephone cash, in these times of hardship, materialism and relationships then fortune tellers 'boom.
There are all kinds of people who do all kinds of things, for all different kinds of motives. All things in life are like that. There are a lot of people who are fakes in the field of mediumship but there are those who do truly have honed in to their abilities and desire to use those abilities to serve others.
Mediums should always be able to give you verifiable facts. As for seeing the future. The future that we see is never set in stone but only what we see if the present course continues.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.