James Randi
James Randi
James Randiis a Canadian-American retired stage magician and scientific skeptic who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. Randi is the co-founder of Committee for Skeptical Inquiryand the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation. He began his career as a magician under the stage name, The Amazing Randi, and later chose to devote most of his time to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims, which he collectively calls "woo-woo". Randi retired from practicing magic aged 60, and from the...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMagician
Date of Birth7 August 1928
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
I would put my million dollars up as well.
The second class of people that I examined in those 104 people, were people who still had the diseases of which they said they'd been healed.
I have been through similar situations where believers will insist on believing despite the evidence no matter how strong that is.
I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions.
If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then he's doing it the hard way.
Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.
There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.
No amount of belief makes something a fact.
I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.
The market for nonsense is infinite.
Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the $1,000,000 reward of James Randi, offered to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal effect under proper scientific controls, is safe.
Heroin also makes people feel better, but I wouldn't recommend using heroin.
Feeling better is not actually being better.
There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.