# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wim-betz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:42:07.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wim-betz"
name: "Wim Betz"
slug: "wim-betz"
description: "Willem (Wim) Betz was a Flemish physician and professor emeritus at the Belgian university Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where he was head of the center for training in general medical practice until November 2007. Betz was a leading skeptic in Flanders and participant in the EU COST B4 Project. He was a founding member, president and vice-president of the Belgian skeptic organisation SKEPP."
tagline: "Flemish physician (1943-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wim_Betz_tuin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-02-22"
deathDate: "2019-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.13
  momentum:             15.60606060606061
  historical:           4.60252
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ويم بيتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wim Betz"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Betz"
    title: "Wim Betz"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Betz"
    title: "Wim Betz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Betz"
    title: "Wim Betz"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3444362"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump