Ben Carson Just Got a Whole Lot Wrong About the Brain
Today, in his first speech to his staff at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, newly minted Secretary Ben Carson delivered an extemporaneous disquisition on the unparalleled marvel that is the human brain and memory. \u201cThere is nothing in this universe that even begins to compare with the human brain and what it is capable of,\u201d he began. \u201cBillions and billions of neurons, hundreds of billions of interconnections.