University of Pennsylvania Professor Caplan is a man with a lot of academic awards. Does he have sufficient common sense to balance his academic perspective? If his comments on ABC News' Prime Time, August 25, 2009 are any indication, he shows little common sense.
He says that a person may commit a violent act thus he or she should be medicated. He does not state any rational method of determining who may be violent, and how to identify them. If human nature is any indicator all humans are capable of violence given sufficient provocation.
He is a bioethicist. What are the qualifications for that title? Princeton University Professor Peter Singer is also a bioethicist. Singer professes that parents should be allowed to kill a baby born with disabilities within six months of birth. He says it will increase happiness in the world.
Caplan expresses his despicable opinion of persons accused of mental illness without any evidence to support his biases. He does not question how mental illnesses are created. He does not mention any abuses of psychiatry. He sounds like a man with financial interests in the psychiatric industry and the drug industry. ABC did not provide any information about his drug company or psychiatric connections. He has a graduate degree from Columbia University which has an enormous financial commitment to promoting drug treatment.
Caplan was "Named 'Person to Watch in 2001' by USA Today." Why was he singled out to be watched? What are his personal habits that make him a subject for surveillance? Has anyone watched him since then? What was he found to be doing?
http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/People/?last=Caplan&first=Arthur
Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.
Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics
E-mail: caplan@mail.med.upenn.edu
Tel:(215) 898-7136
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