James Randi is a Canadian-American retired stage magician and scientific skeptic best known for his challenges to paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Randi is the co-founder of Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation. He be...
Educator, Magician, Social activist, Illusionist, Writer, Actor
Nationality
Canada
Spouse
Deyvi Orangel Peña Arteaga (m. 2013)
Parents
George Randall Zwinge, Marie Alice Paradis
Nicknames
The Amazing Randi , Randall James Hamilton Zwinge , James Randy
Awards
Richard Dawkins Award, MacArthur Fellowship
Movies
Secrets of the Psychics, Is There Sex After Death?, Penn & Teller Get Killed, Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper, Beyond Desire, Invisible Thread
TV Shows
The Magic Clown
Star Sign
Leo
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Quote
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Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin.
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I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.
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If the audience likes you, they want you to win. It's not a case of: "We'll see whether he can do this. No. We'll see him do this. We want him to be successful. He's up against the odds." They're pulling for the underdog.
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The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
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It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense.
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If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then he's doing it the hard way.
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Fact
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Currently in charge of the James Randi Educational Foundation which promotes critical thinking. The Foundation also offers one million US dollars to anyone who can show evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event. [April 2004]
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Randi used to have a pet Kinkajou named Sam.
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Randi drives a 2002 teal blue Miata named Sophia.
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Randi broke Houdini's underwater record when he was sealed in a metal coffin at the bottom of a swimming pool for 104 minutes.
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Randi once escaped from a straitjacket while suspended over Niagara Falls.
$1.5 Million
