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65 of history's most influential philosophers. Thinkers whose ideas on existence, ethics, and society still shape human understanding.

James Randi

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James Randi

Canada

Magician and escape artist James Randi exposed Uri Geller's spoon-bending tricks and faith healers' deceptions, and founded the James Randi Educational Foundation which offered a $1 million prize for proof of paranormal powers. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge in Toronto in 1928, he became a leading investigator of paranormal claims. Randi won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1986 and received multiple awards for science communication.

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