Amazing Randi: Stage magician, sceptic, and intellectual gadfly. who has demonstrated the sleight of hand, both literal and metaphorical, that sustains goofball beliefs in scientific frauds such as hypnosis, meditation, and the paranormal. Unfortunately, by demonstrating that the amazing is rather ordinary, Randi's cachet became an oxymoron, or contradiction in terms, much like other oxymorons bestowed on public figures such as Freud/scientist, Pinker/psychologist, Dr. Phil/expert, and Csikszentmihalyi/pronouncible.
