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Ben Carson's Passing Grade in a "Honesty" Psychology Class Didn't Happen

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As been pointed out by posters in the past, he has a compelling story and there is no need to tell such whoppers, but his stories are approaching Commander McBragg level.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/06/ben-carson-west-point/
One of them, recalled in “Gifted Hands,” involved a psychology class he said he had attended at Yale University, called Perceptions 301. Mr. Carson described the professor’s conducting an honesty experiment on the class and wrote that he was the only one who passed, prompting The Yale Daily News to take his picture.

But no photo identifying Mr. Carson as a student appeared in the newspaper’s archives, The [Wall Street] Journal reported, and a Yale librarian told the newspaper that there was no psychology course by that name or class number during Mr. Carson’s years at Yale.
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Alright apologists have at it. Let's see the back flips on this one.
 
Nice Squirrel said:
As been pointed out by posters in the past, he has a compelling story and there is no need to tell such whoppers, but his stories are approaching Commander McBragg level.
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I was thinking J Peterman buying stories for his autobiography from Kramer. I wonder when Carson is going to dazzle us with the tale of the ruined pants. ;)
In any case, very meta to lie about an honesty experiment ...
Alright apologists have at it. Let's see the back flips on this one.
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Hey, he said they took his picture, not that they printed his picture.

Also, what about Hillary's lies about her emails?
 
Ben Carson and Brian Williams should get together and share stories. Who knows... after a couple of hours of frenzied, oneupmanship storytelling, one of them will probably have claimed to have walked on the moon.
 
Tom Sawyer said:
Hey, he said they took his picture, not that they printed his picture.
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The probably knew that one day he would run for President and would tell people about the photo. So they hid all records of the story and photo. Libruhl media! :angryfist:
 
Don2 (Don1 Revised) said:
Tom Sawyer said:
Hey, he said they took his picture, not that they printed his picture.
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The probably knew that one day he would run for President and would tell people about the photo. So they hid all records of the story and photo. Libruhl media! :angryfist:
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I expect that the same people who planted the fake Obama birth certificate in the Hawaian records office also went around destroying any evidence if all the remarkable things that Carson did.
 
thebeave said:
Ben Carson and Brian Williams should get together and share stories. Who knows... after a couple of hours of frenzied, oneupmanship storytelling, one of them will probably have claimed to have walked on the moon.
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He is begining to remind me a lot of the Dilbert character Topper.
 
The next thing we're going to find out is that Carson isn't actually a neurosurgeon. He's just a bus driver with the same name as a local neurosurgeon.
 
At least he was a doctor, he was a doctor, right?

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Bacillus anthracis said:
The next thing we're going to find out is that Carson isn't actually a neurosurgeon. He's just a bus driver with the same name as a local neurosurgeon.
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Damn you for stealing my thought and posting it first.
 
More evidence the guy is a pathological liar.
 
Bacillus anthracis said:
The next thing we're going to find out is that Carson isn't actually a neurosurgeon. He's just a bus driver with the same name as a local neurosurgeon.
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Or maybe that we are "sick and tired of hearing about" Hillary's classified emails coverup, but when it comes to getting your picture taken for the student newspaper, why that's MSM NEWS.
 
Nice Squirrel said:
As been pointed out by posters in the past, he has a compelling story and there is no need to tell such whoppers, but his stories are approaching Commander McBragg level.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/06/ben-carson-west-point/
One of them, recalled in “Gifted Hands,” involved a psychology class he said he had attended at Yale University, called Perceptions 301. Mr. Carson described the professor’s conducting an honesty experiment on the class and wrote that he was the only one who passed, prompting The Yale Daily News to take his picture.

But no photo identifying Mr. Carson as a student appeared in the newspaper’s archives, The [Wall Street] Journal reported, and a Yale librarian told the newspaper that there was no psychology course by that name or class number during Mr. Carson’s years at Yale.
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Alright apologists have at it. Let's see the back flips on this one.
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No need to. Like all the other ginned gotcha stories of petty quibbles, his biographical recollections will likely turnout to have a basis in fact. IF, on the other hand, it is totally made up THEN we have an issue...we shall see.
 
credoconsolans said:
More evidence the guy is a pathological liar.
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Nope...as I predicted it looks like another bogus smear by journalists. Minutes ago I read a couple of new facts in the last hour:

First, turns out there is a course called Perceptions at the 300 level (as well as a Perceptions and Cognition Lab).

Second, turns out that in 1970 the Yale Daily Record published a fake Yale Daily News - an exact duplicate with the same names of writers. It was intended as a parody. One of the fake articles told students in a psych class that their exams had been accidentally destroyed and told students to show up to a special makeup exam for a new test do over.

So it seems there is documented basis for Carson's claim. But the next day, the real Yale Daily News published that the previous edition was a parody. He seems unaware that he was the victim of this elaborate practical joke.

https://twitter.com/morgenr/media
 
maxparrish said:
Bacillus anthracis said:
The next thing we're going to find out is that Carson isn't actually a neurosurgeon. He's just a bus driver with the same name as a local neurosurgeon.
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Or maybe that we are "sick and tired of hearing about" Hillary's classified emails coverup, but when it comes to getting your picture taken for the student newspaper, why that's MSM NEWS.
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Wasn't it you that brought up Biden's plagiarism?
 
maxparrish said:
Bacillus anthracis said:
The next thing we're going to find out is that Carson isn't actually a neurosurgeon. He's just a bus driver with the same name as a local neurosurgeon.
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Or maybe that we are "sick and tired of hearing about" Hillary's classified emails coverup, but when it comes to getting your picture taken for the student newspaper, why that's MSM NEWS.
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"Key Clinton emails did not contain highly classified secrets"

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/hillary-clinton-email-no-highly-classified-215599#ixzz3qk82UUDc
 
Nice Squirrel said:
As been pointed out by posters in the past, he has a compelling story and there is no need to tell such whoppers, but his stories are approaching Commander McBragg level.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/06/ben-carson-west-point/
One of them, recalled in “Gifted Hands,” involved a psychology class he said he had attended at Yale University, called Perceptions 301. Mr. Carson described the professor’s conducting an honesty experiment on the class and wrote that he was the only one who passed, prompting The Yale Daily News to take his picture.

But no photo identifying Mr. Carson as a student appeared in the newspaper’s archives, The [Wall Street] Journal reported, and a Yale librarian told the newspaper that there was no psychology course by that name or class number during Mr. Carson’s years at Yale.
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Alright apologists have at it. Let's see the back flips on this one.
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He took the class at West Point.

Duh.
 
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