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James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author, and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. He was the co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), and founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Randi began his career as a magician under the stage name The Amazing Randi and later chose to devote most of his time to investigating ...
Oct 21, 2020 · Mr. Randi was all but born skeptical. He entered an irrational world, in Toronto, as Randall James Zwinge on Aug. 7, 1928, one of three children of Marie (Paradis) and George Zwinge. In 1960 in ...
Oct 22, 2020 · Humans 22 October 2020. By AFP. James Randi in 2015. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP) Escape artist and magician James Randi, who spent decades investigating and debunking faith healers, mind readers, psychics and other fraudsters and charlatans who claimed paranormal powers has died, his foundation said. He was 92.
Oct 22, 2020 · Getty Images. One of the best known magicians in the entertainment industry, James Randi, famous for exposing claimants of the paranormal, has died in the US aged 92. Known by just his surname ...
James Randi has an international reputation as a magician and escape artist, but today he is best known as the world’s most tireless investigator and demystifier of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. Randi has pursued “psychic” spoonbenders, exposed the dirty tricks of faith healers, investigated homeopathic water “with a memory ...
Oct 29, 2020 · 29 October 2020. James Randi (1928–2020) Illusionist who exposed fraud to showcase the perils of credulity. Philip Ball. Philip Ball. You have full access to this article via your institution ...
Oct 22, 2020 · James “The Amazing” Randi loved magic. He was a celebrated escape artist who broke records set by Houdini and performed everywhere from the White House to Niagara Falls (dangling upside down ...
Oct 22, 2020 · James Randi, a magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers and became the country’ s foremost skeptic, has died at 92. Later in his career, he challenged spoon ...
Oct 22, 2020 · Randi died on Tuesday, at the age of 92, due to "age-related causes," according to the James Randi Educational Foundation. A prototype for such modern day skeptic magicians as Penn & Teller, Randi ...
Nov 12, 2020 · James Randi died on October 20th. The magician, who had a second career as a professional debunker of flim-flam and trickery, was 92. Nov 12th 2020. A S A BOY he invented a pop-up toaster. He blew ...
