I’m sorry, but ‘just a stage magician’ doesn’t cut it here.  Aside from James Randi being the founder of CSICOP and winner of international Humanist awards, his Encyclopaedia of Claims, Frauds, Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural received the following endorsements from the following *authoritative* sources:

Nature Magazine: ‘An excellent compendinum…enlivened by many pungent asides’

Arthur C. Clarke (who also wrote the Foreword): ‘I regard James Randi as a national treasure, and one of the few remaining antidotes that may prevent the rotting of the American mind.’

Martin Gardiner (editor of  Scientific American  ):  ‘A much needed contribution to the nation’s sanity … Randi has written a hard-hitting, no holds barred encyclopedia of the major cranks, charlatans, and follies of our time.’

Randi’s tone may be dry and a little mocking, and Rawat’s followers might not quite agree with all of his observations, but that is not the issue here.  The source is legit, in Wiki terms.  How can it not be?  My three sources are better known, or ‘notable’ (as I believe is the term around here) than Rawat himself.  As is James Randi, of course.