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[PlayALLtheGames]

Good article: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122989/ben-carson-climate-change-gravity-where-did-it-come

More evolution and climate change denial, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFlK9It4jtU

I honestly wonder who the last President was who didn't believe in evolution? I feel like GW definitely did. Clinton, yes. I bet even Bush Sr.

 

[Poltergust]

How is it possible for a neurosurgeon to have such anti-science views?

Remind me to never go under his knife.

 

[Dr_Boris_Goltz]

Isn't "God is very smart so he didn't want to start over every 50 years," a total contradiction?

 

[inner-G]

Newton invented it, duh.

 

[giga]

Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

 

[ponpo]

"Fucking magnets, how do they work?" - Dr. Ben Carson

 

[Chie Satonaka]

I honestly wonder who the last President was who didn't believe in evolution? I feel like GW definitely did. Clinton, yes. I bet even Bush Sr.

I'm not sure, but we won't need to consider Dr. Carson in their ranks, because Ben Carson will never be President.

 

[mreddie]

"Fucking magnets, how do they work?" - Dr. Ben Carson

Pretty much.

 

[Team Alucard]

How is it possible for a neurosurgeon to have such anti-science views?

Remind me to never go under his knife.

pretty sure ben carson is a savant. its the only way his comments make sense, because he honestly seems like he believes everything that comes out of his mouth, and isn't just pandering like trump or cruz.

 

[j_k_redtail]

I'm not sure, but we won't need to consider Dr. Carson in their ranks, because Ben Carson will never be President.

Truth. Cannot wait for the actual votes to start rolling in so we can do away with the sideshow.

 

[Orbis Tabula]

I mean, it's not a stupid question. The rest of the anti-science stuff is, though.

 

[Jombie]

The 2016 election, increasingly more terrifying every day. Is it too late to sign up for the Mars mission?

 

[Trey]

Same place mass comes from. Energy too, for that matter.

 

[B-Dubs]

I mean, it's not a stupid question. The rest of the anti-science stuff is, though.

The way he's asking it, it's absolutely a stupid question. He's using it as a way to dismiss science, because if science doesn't know everything then everything science knows must be wrong.

 

[badboy78660]

 

[peteykirch]

So that's why Kanye seems to believe Ben Carson is the answer for America.

 

[PsihoPerihelion]

From Academy Award Winner Alfonso Cuarón.

 

[FtsH]

Actually it's true you need more guts to believe in evolution than creation. Can't blame people to chose the easier life.

 

[themagicalkitsune]

There has to be a scientific explanation about how bad his tie is.

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

How is it possible for a neurosurgeon to have such anti-science views?

Remind me to never go under his knife.

I just assume him and all candidates (save for Trump) are actually really smart but they just act stupid to pander to the ignorant American base where our shitty public education system has failed them.

 

[Byakuya769]

A doctor is a scientist by choice or they're a highly trained technician.

Carson is clearly the latter.

 

[Window]

I mean, it's not a stupid question. The rest of the anti-science stuff is, though.

http://www.amazon.com/Gravitation-Physics-Series-Charles-Misner/dp/0716703440
Give this a read and maybe you can tell us.

Spoiler

Saw this book lying in one of my professor's office. It was intimidating.

 

[Poltergust]

I just assume him and all candidates (save for Donald "Why doesn't he show his birth certificate" Trump) are actually really smart but they just act stupid to pander to the ignorant American base where our shitty public education system has failed them.

Carson has been saying this kind of stuff wayyyyy before he was considered a political candidate, though.

 

[ivysaur12]

Spinning.

 

[The Technomancer]

I just assume him and all candidates (save for Trump) are actually really smart but they just act stupid to pander to the ignorant American base where our shitty public education system has failed them.

Trump actually is smart. Carson does genuinely appear to be a moron when it comes to anything that's not brain surgery

 

[Surface of Me]

How is it possible for a neurosurgeon to have such anti-science views?

Remind me to never go under his knife.

Being smart in one specific field does not mean you will be smart about all things.

 

[Thelonelykoopa]

I just assume him and all candidates (save for Trump) are actually really smart but they just act stupid to pander to the ignorant American base where our shitty public education system has failed them.

I feel it's the other way around; Trump knows he spewing bullshit the other candidates seem believe their rhetoric.

 

[John Kowalski]

There has to be a scientific explanation about how bad his tie is.

nerd is bad

science

 

[213372bu]

Being smart in one specific field does not mean you will be smart about all things.

I'm more than sure he is being ignorant to pander to the average American.

These subjects are middle school level science. You have to pass both general science course and more to even become a neurosurgeon, which is nothing to cough at.

And he went to fucking Yale.

He's good at believing his own lies.

 

[Kusagari]

I just assume him and all candidates (save for Trump) are actually really smart but they just act stupid to pander to the ignorant American base where our shitty public education system has failed them.

Carson has been saying this stuff for literally decades. It just wasn't covered that much.

Unless you think he's been masterminding some long con in case of a possible presidential run, Carson really does think all the stuff he says.

Which is why he scares me more than any other GOP candidate. I have no doubt he 100% believes every single thing he spouts.

 

[Poltergust]

Being smart in one specific field does not mean you will be smart about all things.

This is extremely basic stuff that you learn about before even entering college, though.

 

[BlueTsunami]

Feels like we're on the cusp of cycling into our own dark age

 

[Orbis Tabula]

http://www.amazon.com/Gravitation-Physics-Series-Charles-Misner/dp/0716703440
Give this a read and maybe you can tell us.

Spoiler

Saw this book lying in one of my professor's office. It was intimidating.

I'll wait for the movie.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

orac/David Gorski already wrote a blog post on Carson
Most doctors are not scientists, Ben Carson paper bag edition

 

[TimeEffect]

The one lady looking back with the "Checkmate, atheist" look

 

[Window]

I'll wait for the movie.

From Academy Award Winner Alfonso Cuarón.

.

 

[Bay Maximus]

I mean, but where did it come from though.

Think about it.

 

[Veritigo_X]

I like how he tried to spin climate change as a good thing. The crowd loved this line.

Is there climate change? Of course there's climate change. Any point in time temperatures are going up or temperatures are going down. When that stops happening, that's when we're in big trouble.

 

[DrSlek]

 

[daveo42]

"Fucking magnets, how do they work?" - Dr. Ben Carson

I think gravity comes from magnets, which continue to confound even the smartest of scientists.

 

[keuja]

The idiocracy is real in certain circles.

 

[MrCunningham]

Newton invented it, duh.

He made it out of an apple core.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

This guy was allowed to open kids heads and poke about with their brains?

 

[ghostofsparta]

the second he says "God", everyone claps

that's his audience

 

[inky]

How is it possible for a neurosurgeon to have such anti-science views?

Remind me to never go under his knife.

Multiple intelligences theory taken to the extreme or something. ;P

Pretty much his aptitude for a specific set of skills completely sucks out any other capabilities for rational thought and self awareness.

Spoiler

I'm joking btw, I'm sure he is just a fucking idiot who panders to other idiots and is positively recompensed for doing so.

 

[entremet]

How is it possible for a neurosurgeon to have such anti-science views?

Remind me to never go under his knife.

Doctors aren't scientists.

 

[RoKKeR]

Starting a sentence with "as far as evolution is concerned" is not likely to end with a lot of reason.

 

[Angry Grimace]

 

[Dennis]

orac/David Gorski already wrote a blog post on Carson
Most doctors are not scientists, Ben Carson paper bag edition

I can confirm that a lot of medical doctors are not scientists at all.

 

[PsychBat!]

Doctors aren't scientists.

What?