James Randi

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1. James Randi

   Author of The Faith Healers, Magic of Uri Geller, The Magic World of the Amazing Randi

2. Martin Gardner

   Author of The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995, Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing (Test Your Code Breaking Skills), On the Wild Side

3. Michael Shermer

   Author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule

4. Richard Dawkins

   Author of The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Climbing Mount Improbable

5. Carl Sagan

   Author of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

6. Jan Brunvand

   Author of Curses! Broiled Again!: The Hottest Urban Legends Going, The Choking Doberman: And Other Urban Legends, The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends

7. Cecil Adams

   Author of The Straight Dope, More of the Straight Dope, Straight Dope Tells All

8. Stephen Jay Gould

   Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Bully for Brontosaurus, The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

9. Penn Jillette

   Author of Penn and Teller's How to Play with Your Food, Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends, Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic

10. Philip Plait

    Author of Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax", Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . .

11. Jim Steinmeyer

    Author of Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear, The Glorious Deception: The Double Life of William Robinson, aka Chung Ling Soo, the "Marvelous Chinese Conjurer", The Magic of Alan Wakeling: The Works of a Master Magician

12. Daniel C. Dennett

    Author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

13. John Allen Paulos

    Author of Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

14. Robert L. Park

    Author of Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud

15. Robert Todd Carroll

    Author of The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions

16. Charles Mackay

    Author of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

17. Philip Kitcher

    Author of Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism

18. Wendy Kaminer

    Author of Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials

19. Jean Hugard

    Author of The Royal Road to Card Magic, Expert Card Technique: Close-Up Table Magic, Card Tricks and Stunts: More Card Manipulations

20. Victor J. Stenger

    Author of God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist