Ben Carson’s Past Faces Deeper Questions
By REID J. EPSTEIN
Nov. 6, 2015 9:04 p.m. ET
... In his 1990 autobiography, Gifted Hands, Mr. Carson writes of a Yale psychology professor who told Mr. Carson, then a junior, and the other students in the class identified by Mr. Carson as Perceptions 301 that their final exam papers had inadvertently burned, requiring all 150 students to retake it. The new exam, Mr. Carson recalled in the book, was much tougher. All the students but Mr. Carson walked out.
The professor came toward me. With her was a photographer for the Yale Daily News who paused and snapped my picture, Mr. Carson wrote. A hoax, the teacher said. We wanted to see who was the most honest student in the class. Mr. Carson wrote that the professor handed him a $10 bill.
No photo identifying Mr. Carson as a student ever ran, according to the Yale Daily News archives, and no stories from that era mention a class called Perceptions 301. Yale Librarian Claryn Spies said Friday there was no psychology course by that name or class number during any of Mr. Carsons years at Yale ...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ben-carsons-past-faces-deeper-questions-1446861864
hibbing
(10,098 posts)Trump will be next. It is all coming together for Idiot Son II.
Peace
trusty elf
(7,394 posts)"gifted hands" = "shedding fat"
"Ben Carson" = neon crabs"
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Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)A lot of physicians have a God complex, but are at the same time good and caring people. Dr. Carson is clearly a narcissist, but he also seems to have constructed this alternate reality in which he actually believes many things that are false. He would be an excellent case study for a PhD student in abnormal psychology.