How can someone this stupid become a doctor?

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Ben Carson Didn't Expect Anyone To Be Offended by His Bigoted Comments

In New Book, Ben Carson Writes He Was Shocked To Discover Gay People Don't Like Being Compared To Bestiality Supporters

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/05/19/ben-carson-didnt-expect-anyone-to-be-offended-b/199373

[Scuba]

1. You know what they call the guy who graduates last in his medical school class?

"Doctor."

[1000words]

2. Beat me to it ...

[Cleita]

8. Yep. One of my physician employers told me that joke. eom

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. I was pretty sure it was Ben Carson from the title

but tbh, there are plenty of other MD's who are clueless on pretty much everything apart from their specialty, just as in every other field of human endeavour.

[Skidmore]

4. Actually, there's a group of equally clueless doctors in the Congress.

Paul, Barrasso, Coburn, Gingery, for starters.

[IronLionZion]

6. I think Rand Paul failed his board exams

I suspect some of the others may have done so as well. It is suspicious that the docs are all on the Repub side.

[Jamaal510]

16. They're all quacks, not doctors. nt

[elleng]

5. I've had that same question and

he wasn't just 'a' doctor, he was an excellent doctor. Something about right brain/left brain???

[Cleita]

7. A lot of doctors don't know anything except their profession.

I've worked with physicians on and off throughout my life and sometimes I'm just gobsmacked by the stupidity and ignorance on outside topics. Even common sense seems to be missing a lot of the time.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

11. Bill Frist's confusion on if tears could transmit AIDS was a little disturbing.

I guess anyone can have a moment where their brain freezes like a computer, but wow. The guy is a transplant surgeon.

[Cleita]

13. And yet we can get some one like Howard Dean who is so intellectually well

rounded, he could be a Renaissance Man. Go figure.

[former9thward]

14. The knowledge on that was not always settled.

I remember in the 90s that was debated back and forth with doctors and AIDs researchers.

[shenmue]

9. Idiot

Sigh.

[Egnever]

10. You obviously have not been to many doctors

In my 48 years on this planet I have run across some complete morons with the DR. affixed to their name.

[skypilot]

12. He didn't even learn what he thinks he learned.

From the article:

I found out two important things: First, bestiality is particularly abhorrent in the gay community and the mention of it evokes a very emotional response.

What does he mean that bestiality is "particularly" abhorrent "in" the gay community. He makes it sound as though this is something that actually goes on in the gay community and that we are all especially ashamed about it and our backs go up if someone mentions it. Is that what he is actually trying to say? Or is this guy--despite being a doctor--really that inarticulate. Part of me wants to think that he was actually trying to say that he learned that gays are especially insulted by the comparison because some wingnut is always bringing it up, but with this guy I really don't know.

[Scruffy Rumbler]

15. I think what he is saying is that Straight people fuck animals in his world and he is shocked to

learn that not only do gay people NOt fuck animals, but we really are sickened by his type that do?