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. "There is nothing in this universe that even begins to compare with the human brain and what it is capable of," he began. It was a tangent in a speech about how in America, anything is possible. It was also a speech that described slaves brought to the US as "immigrants." That's problematic, but Carson is not an expert on slavery.