“The public really doesn’t listen when they’re being told straightforward facts,” says the Amazing Randi. The magician, escape artist, and tiny lion of principled skepticism, now north of 80, leans ...

The big draw at a special screening on Tuesday night in Hollywood wasn’t a leading man or hot new starlet, but an 86-year-old retired magician. A Q&A followed the screening with filmmaker Weinstein, ...

Some of my earliest TV memories are of magician James “The Amazing” Randi on shows like That’s Incredible and In Search Of, where he explained how easy it was to fool the eye with “magical thinking.” ...

James “The Amazing” Randi -- escape artist, magician, skeptic, debunker of psychics and faith healers and, above all, a showman -- is the perfect subject for a documentary. An admitted cheat and ...

Randi has debunked more than 100 psychics and faith healers in a quest to rid the world of hucksters. It also makes him the subject of scorn among purveyors of the paranormal, true believers who say ...

James Randi, a magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he became regarded as the country’s foremost skeptic, has died, his foundation ...

James “The Amazing” Randi, who died at age 92 in 2020, began his career in the in the 1940s as an illusionist and escape artist. But eventually he became a “disillusionist” who traveled the country ...

In the 1970’s, the psychic Uri Geller was a fixture on the TV chat shows. He was famous for bending spoons with nothing more, he said, than the power of his mind. But when Geller appeared on “The ...

James “the Amazing” Randi is an icon of skepticism. The man has done more — over a span of several decades — to further the cause of critical thinking and to expose flimflammery of all sorts than ...