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The hospital did not respond to requests for comment for this story. But doctors say no one has perfected a method of determining mental age and attaching it to a specific treatment plan. The late psychometrics pioneer Louis Leon Thurstone said, "The mental age concept is a failure in that it leads to ambiguities and inconsistencies."
The results of such imprecision were brought to bear when the late Terri Schiavo's parents refused to accept that she was in a persistent vegetative state, a diagnosis that, according to University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Art Caplan, means the patient has no mental age.
Yet patients and their families crave a diagnosis, and when it comes to mental ability, brain age provides a number that's easy to relate to.
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Along with most other witnesses. I think there were 33 doctors who disputed the PVS diagnosis, along with family friends, priests and lawyers. In fact, millions found out that Terri wasn't PVS from the videotapes. Now, that raises a question about the mental age of this "reporter," who won't look beyond his template, who won't investigate the facts, who is gullible enough to believe George Felos, and so on. This is woeful performance for anyone in the media. But then, the media have long since given up FINDING the news. Now they make it up to suit their politics.
If we could measure moral quotient (MQ), we'd have to give up on Art Caplan. I did catch him saying something moral once, and was duly astonished, but that doesn't give him a score much above floor level. Can we allow this moral imbecile to go on wasting scarce air and food? Yes -- tempting though it may be to listen to HIS advice about how to dispose of useless eaters.