James Randi

James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, August 7,1928 in Toronto, Canada), more often known as The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician, a skeptic, and an opponent of pseudoscience (including homeopathy). He is perhaps most known for the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, in which his James Randi Educational Foundation will award a prize of one million USD to anyone who is able to show evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event, under test conditions agreed to by both parties. He is also a regular on a television program called Bullshit!, which is hosted by noted skeptics Penn & Teller.

External links

• James Randi Educational Foundation
• James Randi in the Skeptic's Dictionary
• The 'quack' hunter by Jeanne Malmgren, St. Petersburg Times, 1998-04-14
• 1981 article about CSICOP and fraud, by a former board member
• The Search for the Chimera - Lecture given by James Randi at Princeton University in 2001. Made publically available on the internet by Princeton (300k Windows Media Streaming version).
• Same 2001 Princeton Lecture but for 56k users
• A 'Skeptical' Look at James Randi
• Multimedia files featuring James Randi - Archive with links to online audio and video

On the Randi Challenge

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• Current contenders for the prize, discussed in a public chat forum as their applications come in.
• The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge
• Criticism of Randi's Challenge on Alternative Science by Richard Milton and Randi's response.
• A Challenge to James Randi - A criticism of the Randi challenge, and a challenge toward Randi to explain a number of the studies he has dismissed and Randi's rebuttal.