So what happened? Most people who worked with Carson all those years had no idea he was such a crank on so many other topics or that he was so ignorant on so many others. Personally, I blame hubris. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/11/23/hubris-versus-skepticism-the-case-of-neurosurgeon-ben-carson/ …
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Basically, Dr. Carson is the living example illustrating, first, that most doctors are not scientists. 3/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/09/24/most-doctors-are-not-scientists/ …
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That's one reason why Dr. Carson was an easy mark to become a shill for Mannatech. 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/10/09/mannatech-ben-carsons-lack-of-critical-thinking-skills-extends-to-medicine-as-well/ …
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Carson is also a case study on why even highly intelligent people often are not skeptics. 5/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/11/06/ben-carson-why-intelligent-people-are-not-necessarily-skeptics/ …
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So what was the root of Dr. Carson's downfall? I can't say for sure, but I think it was a combination of his fundamentalist religion, whuch led him to reject science like evolution, and right wing ideology. 6/
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Add to that a heaping helping of hubris that led him to think that his brilliance in neurosurgery translated into brilliance in everything else, and you've got a neurosurgeon turned painfully ignorant crank. 7/
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Remember, Ben Carson was a rock star in medicine for many years. Medical students worshiped him. Patients loved him. African-American medical students had posters of him in their rooms. Much of this was deserved. After all, Carson had succeeded in a very white world! 8/
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Unfortunately, I suspect that all this success and adulation led to hubris, which led to Carson's career in politics and his revealing himself to be an arrogant, corrupt crank. 9/
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Was be always this way? Probably yes, but to a lesser degree in which his worst tendencies were held in check in the relatively tight knit world of pediatric neurosurgery. But that's just a guess. 10/10
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