&gt; a world-class brain surgeon can believe that the pyramids were constructed to store grain<p>Carson is a world-class surgeon trying to convince whatever subset of the Republicans (a) can decide the outcome of the primary and (b) aren&#x27;t already secured by Trump.<p>He probably says whatever nonsense he thinks will please rednecks with a 90 IQ and an sinking feeling that &quot;their&quot; country and its core values are being pulled from under their feet.<p>And I can understand if he&#x27;s a hard time empathising with people who think that &gt;6k years ago, when pyramids where built, the Earth didn&#x27;t even exist.<p>TL;DR: I think&#x2F;hope he&#x27;s failing at understanding plebeians, not Life. It might be wishful thinking because I don&#x27;t want to live in a world where someone could be both so smart and so dumb.