Why you should NOT let Ben Carson drill a hole in your head | Dean Burnett

The US politician has claimed he could stick electrodes in your brain and have you recite verbatim a book you read 60 years ago. In no way is this true

Ben Carson, recently appointed US Housing and Urban Development secretary, is a qualified neurosurgeon. You therefore expect him to have some impressive expertise on the brain. But given his claim in a controversial recent speech that he could stick electrodes in your hippocampus and have you recite verbatim a book you read 60 years ago, this expectation seems wildly optimistic, bordering on farcical. There are so many reasons why this is the case.