Talk:Arthur Caplan

COI?
Most of the edits to this page seem to come from BTH-BIOET-*.med.upenn.edu; the subject is head of bioethics at Penn Med...

PENN MED!!!!!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.238.119.58 (talk) 02:15, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Falun Gong
The Falun Gong info was deleted by a single subject editor claiming it was out of date. I restored the Falun Gong section because what Caplan said in 2012 is still important in 2015.

Maybe someone should check the other 29 August edits done by this editor. Aaabbb11 (talk) 20:47, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

It's important, but it's not well integrated into this article, and the quote given isn't particularly good. I've replaced the section with relevant content and a new quote integrated into the section about his work. I'm working on a general cleanup of the article, which has a number of issues. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 18:04, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Lawsuit dismissed without merit
"The suit was subsequently dismissed as without merit." There are four references following this statement. I couldn't find any mention of the suit being dismissed without merit in any of them. 174.23.106.241 (talk) 21:33, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Right, that statement was factually incorrect as well as unsupported by any of the four sources. I corrected the statement and added a cite which supports it (one of the preexisting cites- the law journal article- also supports it) Here is the text after my edit: “The family’s suit was settled with the University for an undisclosed amount of money, in exchange for, among other things, dropping Caplan from the suit. [9][10] The federal government’s suit on the same facts was settled for $500,000. JustinReilly (talk) 14:31, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

COVID-19 claim & COI
I've originally responded to User:EthicsMatters on my talk page, but further discussion should be carried out here. EthicsMatters has an actual COI per the message he left on my page, and has contributed to a fair portion of this page. The article will need further rewriting for WP:NPOV.

The phrase that EthicsMatters repeatedly adds into the lead, claiming that "Caplan is helping devise policies for many hospitals, companies, organizations, and health systems to allocate resources in conditions of scarcity during the Covid-19 pandemic" and includeds two sources from the Washington Post and LA Times. Neither, however, mention any specific work Caplan is doing in terms of COVID-19 response, including no mention of any hospitals, companies, organizations, and health systems specifically during this epidemic. All we learn is that Caplan works with NYU, and we get Caplan's commentary on the crisis, but not what he actually did. The phrase has been removed for now unless a better source can be found. ◢    Ganbaruby!    (Say hi!) 19:59, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

2022 section seems misleading
The quote "an action that was criticized as advocating for a war crime." is backed by sources that have been biased in the past. One of them is a twitter post. Should this be kept? WorldRyker (talk) 20:00, 10 May 2024 (UTC)