Since the election and inauguration of Donald Trump, some mental health professionals have been promiscuously and very publically flouting the ethical guideline commonly known as the Goldwater Rule. The Goldwater Rule, named after former Republican Presidential nominee Sen. Barry Goldwater, prohibits psychiatrists specifically, but other physicians and mental health professionals by implication, from publically speculating about the mental health of public figures unless they have personally evaluated them and have permission to do so.
I previously objected to this trend in an article at American Thinker, but since that time the flagrant violation of the Goldwater Rule continues unabated. Here are just a few examples. Psychiatrist Carol Wolman questions Trump’s mental stability in an article at OpEd News where I also write. (I registered my objection in the comments.) Dr. Brenda Iannucci, who is an internist specializing in geriatric medicine and bills herself as a “cognitive function specialist,” tweeted her assessment that Trump is developing dementia. Her Twitter feed is basically a series of such tweets. This was picked up by the rabidly anti-Trump website Palmer Report and run under the blaring headline “Brain Specialist Doctor Believes Donald Trump’s Frontal Lobe is Failing.” (I attempted to voice my objection there as well, but my comment was not approved.) By far the most egregious example of this ongoing ethical circus was a “conference” of mental health professionals held at Yale for the very purpose of speculating about the President’s mental health. This isn’t violating the Goldwater Rule, this is throwing it on the ground and stomping on it.
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