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In reply to the discussion: I'm finding it hard to believe Ben Carson was ever a "brain surgeon". [View all]Orrex
(63,203 posts)I got into a heated argument on FB with a friend-of-a-friend.
I couldn't believe how stupid he was, making wild claims directly at odds with reality while displaying a basic failure to understand politics, economics and foreign policy, and he lashed out with incredible savagery at anyone who disagreed with him.
Eventually I Googled him and couldn't believe the result: he's an accomplished and highly respected physician & research scientist as well as a department head at a major university on the west coast.
I asked my friend (whom I've known for almost 30 years) about this, and she confirmed that that's who he is, and in fact that's how she met him.
I'm sure that the good doctor sees himself as an expert in all things, but he's further proof that expertise in one field is no barrier to abject stupidity in another. Hence Dr. Ben Carson.