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| birth_name = Randall James Hamilton Zwinge
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1928|08|07}}
| birth_place = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[CanadaKanada]]
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| occupation = {{hlist|MagicianČarodej|illusionistiluzionist|authorpisec|skepticskeptik}}
| years active = 1946−2015
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| spouse = {{marriage|José Alvarez (bornrojen Deyvi Orangel Peña Arteaga)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.southflorida.com/theater-and-arts/sf-jose-alvarez-amazing-randi-art-hollywood-20150326-story.html|title=Now you see them: The tricky world of the Amazing Randi and Jose Alvarez|publisher=Southflorida.com|author=Phillip Valys|date=26 March 2015|accessdate=30 March 2016|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411205538/http://www.southflorida.com/theater-and-arts/sf-jose-alvarez-amazing-randi-art-hollywood-20150326-story.html|archivedate=April 11, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>|2013}}
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| website = {{URL|http://www.randi.org}}
| nationality = [[Canadians|Canadian]]Kanadsko<br/>AmericanAmeriško (naturalizednaturaliziran)
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'''James Randi''' (bornrojen '''Randall James Hamilton Zwinge'''; August 7,. avgust 1928) isje a [[Canadian Americans|Canadiankanadsko-American]] retired stage magicianameriški, andupokojeni ačarodej [[scientificin skepticism|scientificskeptični skeptic]]aktivist<ref name="Higginbotham">{{cite news |first=Adam |last=Higginbotham |title=The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/magazine/the-unbelievable-skepticism-of-the-amazing-randi.html?action=click&contentCollection=Magazine®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article |work=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |date=November 7, 2014 |accessdate=November 8, 2014 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108162548/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/magazine/the-unbelievable-skepticism-of-the-amazing-randi.html?action=click&contentCollection=Magazine®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article |archivedate=November 8, 2014 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="nyt 1988-07-27">{{cite news |title=Water That Has a Memory? Skeptics Win Second Round |last=Sullivan |first=Walter |authorlink=Walter S. Sullivan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/27/us/water-that-has-a-memory-skeptics-win-second-round.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 27, 1988 |accessdate=October 9, 2013 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113054121/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/27/us/water-that-has-a-memory-skeptics-win-second-round.html |archivedate=November 13, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="nyt 2001-02-17">{{cite news |title=Poof! You're a Skeptic: The Amazing Randi's Vanishing Humbug |first=Patricia |last=Cohen |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/17/arts/17RAND.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 17, 2001 |accessdate=May 5, 2010 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090920070940/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/17/arts/17RAND.html |archivedate=September 20, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> who has extensively challenged [[paranormal]] and [[pseudoscientific]] claims.<ref name="Rodrigues">[[#Rodrigues|Rodrigues 2010]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=OsGuZjYzXdAC&pg=PA271 p. 271]</ref> Randi is the co-founder of the [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]] (CSI), originally known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). He is also the founder of the [[James Randi Educational Foundation]] (JREF). 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".<ref name="Randiwoo">{{cite journal |last=Randi |first=James |date=February 9, 2007 |title=More Geller Woo-Woo |journal=Swift |type=Newsletter |accessdate=2016-12-26 |url=http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-02/020209morebrowne.html#i7 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090710012001/http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-02/020209morebrowne.html#i7 |archivedate=July 10, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Randi retired from practicing magic at age 60, and from the JREF at 87.
Although often referred to as a "[[debunker]]", Randi has said he dislikes the term's connotations and prefers to describe himself as an "investigator".<ref name=westdefense/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://affect.media.mit.edu/milliondollarchallenge/ |title=One-Million-Dollar Challenge |work=MIT Media Lab: Affective Computing Group |publisher=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] |accessdate=October 9, 2013 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727062223/http://affect.media.mit.edu/milliondollarchallenge/ |archivedate=July 27, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> He has written about paranormal phenomena, skepticism, and the history of magic. He was a frequent guest on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'', famously exposing fraudulent [[faith healer]] [[Peter Popoff]], and was occasionally featured on the television program ''[[Penn & Teller: Bullshit!]]''
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