Many parts of Ben Carson's life story seem to be "inspirational fiction," a.k.a. made-up shit, or lies.
Carson claimed he met Gen. William Westmoreland and was offered a full scholarship to attend West Point. Since the Army pays the tuition of all cadets, there's no such thing as a scholarship offer. And there is no evidence that Westmoreland and Carson ever met, and no record of Carson applying or being admitted to Westpoint.
He has told the story of how he protected several white high school classmates by hiding them in the science lab during a period of racial unrest and rampage in the school building in 1968. Carson can't remember the names of any of the students, and no one from the school has any recollection of such an incident.
He has frequently repeated the tale from his Detroit youth of how, in a fit of anger, he tried to stab a young friend, then had an immediate religious epiphany which changed his life. Except none of his friends and associates from that time recall the incident, and all the names Carson used in telling the story are fake. Carson now says the friend was actually a relative, and he used fake names to protect those involved, but he cannot today remember their real names.
Ben says that back in college he was singled out by his professor as the "most honest student" in a Yale psychology class, Perceptions 301, and photographed for an article in the Yale Daily News. No such photo or article ever appeared in the school paper, and Yale has never offered a course with that name or number.
Carson has often said he once had a gun pulled on him by a robber at a Popeye's restaurant in Baltimore, but Ben never filed a police report. Popeye's has no internal records of a robbery attempt at any location near the Johns Hopkins hospital, and the restaurant never contacted the police or reported any armed robbery.
Among his many bizarre personal convictions, Ben believes that Egypt's pyramids were built to store grain.
Carson's cranium was built to store mush.
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