Anyone ever try ear candles for better listening?

So how does this work?

Does the candle get your ear canal hot enough to liquefy the wax? If you lay on your side, and the bottom of the candle is in your ear, and the candle flame is on the other end above your ear, and heat rises; how does it get hot below the candle?

Is it simply a matter of suction? This small hollow candle creates enough suction to draw sticky wax out of your ear?

Curious minds want to know!

Put me in the "no way in hell can this work" crowd.

Now before you laugh too hard, this guy is one of the most intelligent guys I know, and swears by these methodologies.

So? Howard Hughes was also very smart and died alone in a hotel room because he was afraid of germs.

I tried one of those ear flushers like the Master Blaster but when I tried to clean my right ear all of the water just came gushing out of my left.

I guess I got both my ears and my brain cleaned out at the same time.