James Randi

...in the third grade, and we all trooped down to the school gym to look at the slides of ruins that a local character--a magician named James Randi--had snapped on his recent trip to the mountains of Peru. I can't remember exactly what I found...

In this article: Robert Anton Wilson, Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, Martin Gardner, Illuminatus!, and The Crying of Lot 49

...Phil is the President of the James Randi Educational Foundation, a non-profit based on the works of noted conjurer and skeptic James Randi - famous for debunking the spoon-bending efforts of Uri Geller. The critical thinking movement is...

In this article: Phil Plait, James Randi Educational Foundation, Hubble Space Telescope, Discover Magazine, Sky & Telescope, Twitter, and Uri Geller

...that left the most indelible mark. Lane, a fan of mystics such as Uri Geller and Doris Stokes, pronounced Randi a fraud, told him to ''piss off'', then stormed off the set of his own program. The singer John Farnham, who made numerous...

In this article: Don Lane, Bert Newton, Australia, Alzheimer's disease, Mike McColl-Jones, Sydney, and Pete Smith

...show rated through the roof from 1975 to 1983 he also sparked headlines and controversy. He notoriously told psychic debunker James Randi to "piss off" on national television, causing a furore. Guests such as Liza Minnelli, Davis Jr,...

In this article: Don Lane, Peter Faiman, Australia, Rove McManus, Sydney, Dave Allen, Bob Hawke, Dolly Parton, and Bert Newton

...the Blair Witch Project-like Paranormal Activity movie. But not everyone's a fan. Skeptics abound, like James Randi, who founded his nonprofit James Randi Educational Foundation 13 years ago in Fort Lauderdale to promote critical thinking on...

In this article: Ghost Hunters, Charles Deering, James Randi Educational Foundation, Palmetto Bay, and The Miami Herald

...Attitude and How It Changed" about the initial criticism he received in exposing Geller's methods. Randi noted years after the publication he received apologies from many of the magicians who criticized him. In 1974 magician Sam Dalal wrote a...

In this article: Uri Geller, Val Valentino, Breaking the Magician's Code, The Magic of Uri Geller, Penn Jillette, and Penn & Teller

...the parapsychology community were outraged, with Berthold Schwarz of the McDonnell Laboratory declaring "Randi has set parapsychology back 100 years!" Randi's approach also raised outcries concerning ethical considerations and doubts about...

In this article: Steve Shaw, Kendrick Frazier, Prometheus Books, and Uri Geller

...cables is no different to sticking neon to the underside of your Fiat Punto. It's cosmetic. For years now, sceptic and magician James Randi has offered $1m to anyone who can discern between a normal cable and an expensive cable in a...

In this article: Richer Sounds, Dielectric, DVD, Copper, Teflon, Fiat Punto, and IPod

...pulling in nearly $200,000 a year from his foundation, at the expense of others' careers. His foundation has been hemorrhaging money, and Randi, who has spent his career challenging the notion of an afterlife, now faces his own mortality. He...

In this article: James Randi Foundation, SF Weekly, Ideology, Monty Python, Discovery Channel, Cancer, Yale, Harvard, and Gary Schwartz

...with such ability that is truly demonstrable, that money is still unclaimed. I called Randi at his office in Fort Lauderdale. Steve: James Randi, great to talk to you this morning. How are you? Randi: My pleasure. I'm glad to be here.

In this article: Steve Mirsky, Albert Einstein, Physics, Scientific American, Matthew Chapman, Milky Way, and James Randi Educational Foundation