With great sadness the Flemish Belgian skeptics group SKEPP (Studiekring voor Kritische Evaluatie van Pseudowetenschap en het Paranormale) announces the passing away of their honorary chairman, Prof. Dr. Willem (Wim) Betz, on June 8, 2019. He was seventy-six and had been ill for quite a while.
Betz was well known worldwide as a fierce critic of homeopathy and other unproven remedies and was one of the founders of SKEPP in 1990. He started as its secretary and led the organization from 2005 to 2013 as its president. Betz was also a longtime fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He wrote or cowrote many articles for the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER.