Uri Geller: Randi's site suggests that it isn't just spoons that are crooked. Photo: David Furst/AFP/Getty
James Randi is the one-time stage magician who long ago hung up his cape and now devotes his energies to exposing mumbo jumbo, hucksterism and pseudo-science. Randi's website is perhaps most famous for the million-dollar challenge it offers to anyone who can provide proof of their psychic abilities, or any other paranormal activity.
Not one of the world's astrologers, faith healers, mystics and mind readers has so far taken him up on his offer, a silence that speaks volumes about the charlatans Randi so clearly loathes. After all, if someone offered me a million to do what I claim to be able to do every day, I would be knocking their door down.
Randi isn't happy with just taunting these people with large sums of money, however. Every day he uses his site to expose the world's salesmen and their quackery - a favourite target is the absurd spoon-bender Uri Geller, whom he ceaselessly mocks. Randi never blames the desperate for their credulousness, rather he seeks to demolish those who would exploit them.
A brave, funny, often disturbing site.
