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Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, he was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries. Carson is one of the most prominent black conservatives in the United States.
Carson became the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in 1984 at age 33, then the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States. In 1987, he gained significant fame after leading a team of surgeons in the first-known separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head. Although the surgery was a success, the twins continued to experience neurological and medical complications. His additional accomplishments include performing the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb, developing new methods to treat brain-stem tumors, and revitalizing hemispherectomy techniques for controlling seizures. He has written over 100 neurosurgical publications. He retired from medicine in 2013; at the time, he was professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
This was by all accounts an inarguably intelligent man. Yet he held and later reconfirmed the inarguably and blitheringly stupid contention that the Gaza Pyramids were not pharaonic tombs, but in fact granaries for storing grain. He even blathered this stupidity in public, as the video attests.
How could such a brilliantly smart man, who had the expertise and intelligence to operate on children's brains and be in charge of huge medical organizations, express such ridiculously asinine stupidity?
If it is possible for such a smart, intelligent and learned person to exhibit such utter stupidity, why would people who believe themselves to be of even average intelligence think it impossible to be stupid about some stupid things they stupidly believe in? How can they contend that stupidity and intelligence can't exist within the same person?
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