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==Views==
=== Political views ===
Randi was a registered [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]].<ref name="theesp.eu" /> <!-- The passage in question starts at 56:12 and ends at 59:51 in the podcast. --> In April 2009, he released a statement endorsing the [[Drug liberalization|legalization of most illegal drugs]].<ref name="following up">{{cite web|url=http://archive.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/533-following-up.html|title=Following Up ...|author=James Randi|website=Randi.org|date=April 28, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118062932/http://archive.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/533-following-up.html|archive-date=January 18, 2017}}</ref>
Randi had been reported as a believer in [[Social Darwinism|Social Darwinist]] theories,<ref name="storr">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hEItqk4-vrQC&pg=PT240|first=Will |last=Storr |author-link=Will Storr |title=The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science|publisher=Pan Macmillan|year=2013 |isbn=978-1447204527}}</ref> although he would denounce the ideologies and movements that formed around the theories in 2013.<ref name="4KvL3">{{cite web|url=http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/03/james-randi-responds-to-storrs-social-darwinism-quote|title=James Randi responds to Storr's 'Social Darwinism' quote|date=March 1, 2013|access-date=September 3, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903211337/http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/03/james-randi-responds-to-storrs-social-darwinism-quote/|archive-date=September 3, 2017}}</ref>
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