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Al Seckel
Seckel in 2009
Born
Alfred Paul Seckel
(1958-09-03)September 3, 1958
New York City, U.S.
Died
2015 (aged 56)
France
Nationality
American
Education
Cornell University, no degree
Occupation(s)
Writer, scientific skeptic
Known for
Popularizer of optical illusions
Spouses
Laura Mullen
(m. 1980, divorced)
Denice D. Lewis
(m. 2004, separated)
Alice Klarke
(until 2007)
Partners
Isabel Maxwell (2007–2015; his death)
Parents
Ruth Schonthal
Paul Bernard Seckel
Alfred Paul "Al" Seckel (September 3, 1958 – 2015) was an American collector and popularizer of visual and other types of sensory illusions, who wrote books about them. Active in the Freethought movement as a skeptic in the 1980s, he was the co-founder[1] and executive director of the Southern California Skeptics.[2] News coverage arising from his connection to Jeffrey Epstein has stressed Seckel's misrepresentation of his education and credentials.[3]
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^Armstrong, Stephen (December 30, 2021). "The stranger-than-fiction history of the Maxwell madhouse". The Telegraph. Retrieved April 16, 2022. . . . Epstein's Mindshift conference – a TED Talk rival co-founded with Al Seckel. As befits a suitor for arguably the strangest family in the world, Seckel socialised with the likes of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, Elon Musk and Dudley Moore, and convinced many people that he was a cognitive neuroscientist with ties to Cal Tech. In fact, he was a top-notch charlatan who had failed to graduate from college – but he delighted in delivering TED Talks and publishing books on the science of visual illusions.
Alfred Paul "Al" Seckel (September 3, 1958 – 2015) was an American collector and popularizer of visual and other types of sensory illusions, who wrote...
in 1996 and later ended in divorce. In 2007, Maxwell married AlSeckel. Maxwell and Seckel moved to France from Malibu, California, around 2010, to care...
Seckel syndrome, or microcephalic primordial dwarfism (also known as bird-headed dwarfism, Harper's syndrome, Virchow–Seckel dwarfism and bird-headed dwarf...
Seckel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: AlSeckel (1958–2015), American writer and skeptic Emil Seckel (1864–1924), German jurist...
Foundation. Epstein co-organized a science event with illusionist and skeptic AlSeckel called the Mindshift Conference. The conference took place in 2010 on...
the drawing's top, you see four elephant feet, plus trunk and tail.) AlSeckel, who devotes Chapter 18 of his book Masters of Deception to Roger Shepard...
Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion by AlSeckel, 2004. (Foreword) King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who...
Cuban missile crisis Archived 7 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine, by AlSeckel, California Institute of Technology // Russell: the Journal of Bertrand...
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Glynnis O'Connor (1973): actress AlSeckel (1976): writer, specialist on illusions, creator of Darwin fish design...
Joseph Abraham Seckel (23 December 1881 – 3 March 1945) was a Dutch artist. His work was exhibited in the art competitions at the 1928 and 1932 Summer...
Isaac Seckel ben Menahem Etthausen (Hebrew: יצחק זעקל בן מנחם עטהויזן; fl. early 18th century) was a German rabbi, who served as a rabbi in various towns...
of Representatives for Nevada at-large (1975–1983), esophageal cancer. AlSeckel, 57, American optical illusion collector and sceptic. (death announced...
et al. (2012-11-08). "Identification of the first ATRIP-deficient patient and novel mutations in ATR define a clinical spectrum for ATR-ATRIP Seckel Syndrome"...
this condition is DNA2. Mutations in this gene have been implicated in Seckel syndrome. Since primordial dwarfism disorders are extremely rare, misdiagnosis...
The Faith Healers. Prometheus Books. p. 2, 147. ISBN 978-0879755355. Seckel, Al (1987). "God's Frequency is 39.17 MHz: The Investigation of Peter Popoff"...
pudding. Seckel pear – although little is known about the origin of this American pear, it is generally believed that a Pennsylvania farmer named Seckel discovered...
Routledge. p. 86. ISBN 0415927463. Ibn al-'Awwam, Yaḥyá (1864). Le livre de l'agriculture d'Ibn-al-Awam (kitab-al-felahah) (in French). Translated by J...
Paris: City Guide. Lonely Planet. 2008. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-74059-850-7. Seckel, Henri (8 July 2008). "Urbanisme : Des gratte-ciel à Paris : qu'en pensez-vous...
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