Tom Cruise, expert on psychiatry

Tom Cruise, happily engaged Scientologist, told Matt Lauer this on the Today Show:

When Lauer mentioned Cruise's earlier criticism of Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants, Cruise told the "Today" show co-host he didn't know what he was talking about.

"You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do," Cruise said.

The interview became more heated when Lauer, who said he knew people who had been helped by the attention-deficit disorder drug Ritalin, asked Cruise about the effects of the drug.

"Matt, Matt, you don't even -- you're glib," Cruise responded. "You don't even know what Ritalin is. If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt, OK. That's what I've done."

Here at The Leftover, we've had experience with the use of psychotropic drugs in humans and, as a consequence, we are definitely pro-drug, anti-Scientology. I wonder how much direct experience Tom has in his circle of family and friends.