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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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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Which led him... 
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