Hiram Pendleton Caton III was a professor of politics and history at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, until his retirement.
12 Facts About Hiram Caton
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Hiram Caton was an ethicist, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Biology, and a founding member of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences.
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Hiram Caton was an officer of the International Society for Human Ethology.
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Hiram Caton was the inaugural Professor of Humanities at Griffith University in Brisbane, and later the Professor of Politics and History and Head of the School of Applied Ethics there.
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Hiram Caton's work has been concerned with ethics in the sciences, the history of ideas, and on biological bases for individual, social, and political behaviour.
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Hiram Caton achieved notoriety as an AIDS denialist in the mid-1990s for his book The AIDS Mirage, in which he charged Donald Francis with "inventing a viral epidemic" in 1982 at the Centers for Disease Control.
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Hiram Caton's edited volume, The Samoa Reader: Anthropologists Take Stock, remains the one comprehensive reader on the subject.
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Also in 2005, Hiram Caton was a consultant to the BBC for its documentary on the Freeman-Mead controversy, Tales from the Jungle.
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Hiram Caton published a reinterpretation of Darwin's contribution to the establishment of evolution.
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Hiram Caton has devised a new interpretation of Darwin's famous illness, which he presented at the ISHE conference in Detroit, August 2006.
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Hiram Caton was an evolutionist sceptical of Darwinian mechanisms, and was a catastrophist.
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Hiram Caton contributed a paper to a young earth creationist journal on the evolutionary basis for eugenics, The Holocaust, and euthanasia.