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- Etienne Vermeersch was born on May 2, 1934 in Sint-Michiels, Brugge, Flanders. He died on January 18, 2019 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium.
- Professor Vermeersch was also a major Belgian skeptic. He was a founding member of SKEPP ('Research Society for Critical Evaluation of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal'). He has been lecturing and publishing on this topic for more than 40 years.
- January 2008, Vermeersch was chosen by hundred prominent Flemings as the most influential intellectual of Flanders.
- In the 1990s there was some commotion in the Belgian media when Vermeersch wrote a rational-scientific article entitled 'Why the Christian God cannot exist'.
- Etienne Vermeersch has published about 80 articles, about 10 lemmas in the (Flemish) Encyclopaedia of World Literature, many op-ed articles in newspapers and journals, three syllabi, and six books, among which An Epistemological Introduction to the Science of Man (1967), Current Philosophy (1970), and the bestseller The Panda's Eyes: An Environmentally Philosophical Essay (1988). At his retirement the book From Antigone to Dolly (1997) was published, an edited volume containing articles spanning his entire career.
- He is one of the founding fathers of the abortion and euthanasia law in Belgium. .
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