James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge , the August 7th 1928 with Toronto, Ontario, Canada), more known under name Randi the narcotic (The Amazing Randi), is a professional illusionist. He is in particular known as being a débunker, i.e. a demystificator of the Pseudo-science paranormaux S and other phenomena. He is, through his James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), one of the heads of file of the Mouvement contemporary skeptic.
It is also at the origin of the Projet Alpha, where it infiltrated two young illusionists in a laboratory of parapsychology, in order to show that the protocols to detect the juggling acts were largely insufficient. For this reason, associations skeptics have a Prestidigitateur in their team when they test a person claiming to have paranormaux capacities.
James Randi appeared in the television programs " The Tonight Show" and " Bullshit! " (two popular emissions with the the United States), accommodated by comrades skeptics and the magicians PEN & Teller. It is also known to have exposed fraudulent curative arrangements of the reverend Peter Popoff, evangelist televised, in 1987.
An experiment organized by James Randi with 19 waterfinders showed that with a rate from approximately 52% of success, they were not able to do better than a choice randomly to detect objects or water.
Flim-Flam! , 1982, Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-198-3
the true face of Nostradamus of James Randi, Editor: Balzac it Griot editor (1993), Collection: Memory of man
critical of the work '' The Mask off Nostradamus '' by Igor Ziegler - SPS n° 195, January-February 1992
James Randi, PEN & Teller one skepticism (first part)
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