Not quite. Carson is VERY intelligent, particularly about medicine and neurosurgery. Unfortunately, he is simultaneously very ignorant about everything else. By all reports he was an excellent and particularly hard working pediatric neurosurgeon. 1/https://twitter.com/ClintSmithIII/status/1130998315309502464 …
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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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