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'''James Randi''' (rojen '''Randall James Hamilton Zwinge'''; 7. avgust 1928) je kanadsko-ameriški, upokojeni čarodej in skeptični 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>, ki je tekom kariere izpostavljal nadnaravne in [[Psevdoznanost|psevdoznanstvene]] trditve.<ref name="Rodrigues">[[#Rodrigues|Rodrigues 2010]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=OsGuZjYzXdAC&pg=PA271 p. 271]</ref> Randi je soustanovitelj Odbora za skeptične preiskave (CSI), prvotno znan kot Odbor za znanstveno preiskavo zahtevkov paranormalnih snovi (CSICOP). Je tudi ustanovitelj izobraževalne fundacije Jamesa Randija (ang. James Randi Educational Foundation; JREF). Kariero je s psevdonimom Neverjetni Randi (ang. The Amazing Randi) začel kot čarodej, kasneje pa se je odločil, da bo večino svojega časa posvetil preiskovanju nadnaravnih, okultnih in psevdoznanstvenih trditev, ki jih skupno imenuje "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 se je kot čarodej upokojil pri starosti 60 let, kot član fundacije JREF pa pri 87 letih.
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