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Originally Posted by peter12
Hard to be a good surgeon and an idiot.
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Hard, but apparently not impossible.
That's the confusing part. The guy is clearly an exceptionally intelligent/brilliant person when it comes to brain doctorin', but he has some kooky and downright dumb ideas about certain things.
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Originally Posted by peter12
It is an interesting insight into the strangeness of human intelligence. Clearly, you need a very high general fluid intelligence to be the first neurosurgeon to separate conjoined twins, but it speaks to some sort of deficiency when you bog down your own campaign with gaffe after unnecessary gaffe.
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There's Dr. Oz as well... Though he may not be stupid so much as a greedy sell out. He may know what he's doing and selling.
But I often wonder as well, about different types of intelligence. Some people are very book smart, but seem to have no common sense. I had a friend in high school and afterwards, he was in pre-med and kicking ass. But he was so clueless about other things. Was on a landscaping job with a few other friends, and they had to end up building the owner a new gate because he couldn't figure out which way to open it and he broke the thing!
He was a very nice guy though, not like the two doctors mentioned. Well, guess I don't know them personally, but based on the actions I would have my suspicions.
I think in some of these other cases, there's ego as well. When your ego gets in the way, as it must for people who want to be president, a lot of people probably stop listening and learning and weighing options as much as they should, and end up doing or saying some really stupid things.
As far as if either of them win, I'm kinda hoping they do, cause the Democratic nomination would absolutely obliterate them.