Carson did research on brain tissue from aborted fetuses in 1992

[Mr. Morden]

Wonder if anyone will try to make hay of this:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/virginiahughes/ben-carson-used-fetal-tissue

In possibly related news, Carson just said in an interview that Planned Parenthood puts clinics in poor neighborhoods to "control" the black population:

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/251012-carson-planned-parenthood-clinics-in-black-neighborhoods

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[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Any GOP operatives reading this thread are welcome to contact me I can bring out my "Dr Ben FranCarsonstein" attack ad.

[Mr. Morden]

Any GOP operatives reading this thread are welcome to contact me I can bring out my "Dr Ben FranCarsonstein" attack ad.

Oh my God, now I understand perfectly…from Carson's answer to the first question in the debate:

"The thing that is probably most important is having a brain."

He wasn't talking about his own brain.  He was talking about having other brains to experiment on!

[Türkisblau]

I have just forwarded this to the Donald Trump campaign.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

RINO!

[Bull Moose Base]

May I humbly suggest a scenario to root for? Since this will probably sink Carson and Fiorina's pro-Islam speech will probably sink her, the Cruz surge is probably coming. We want to see him stubbornly trail only Trump by only 5 points after he has made such a big show of (a) declining to attack anyone (b) cozying up to Trump. And then a frantic Cruz vs Trump to close out the year? That's fun.

[SWE]

My opinion of him just went up

[Phony Moderate]

Doesn't matter; he's a Republican.

[Famous Mortimer]

May I humbly suggest a scenario to root for? Since this will probably sink Carson and Fiorina's pro-Islam speech will probably sink her, the Cruz surge is probably coming. We want to see him stubbornly trail only Trump by only 5 points after he has made such a big show of (a) declining to attack anyone (b) cozying up to Trump. And then a frantic Cruz vs Trump to close out the year? That's fun.

This could sink Carson. No one gives a crap about Fiorina saying nice things about non-al Qaeda Muslims outside some Washington Express writer and Democrats on Atlas though.

[Bull Moose Base]

May I humbly suggest a scenario to root for? Since this will probably sink Carson and Fiorina's pro-Islam speech will probably sink her, the Cruz surge is probably coming. We want to see him stubbornly trail only Trump by only 5 points after he has made such a big show of (a) declining to attack anyone (b) cozying up to Trump. And then a frantic Cruz vs Trump to close out the year? That's fun.

This could sink Carson. No one gives a crap about Fiorina saying nice things about non-al Qaeda Muslims outside some Washington Express writer and Democrats on Atlas though.

I think the opposite is true. Democrats on Atlas don't care about it. A GOP primary electorate who fears Sharia Law will imminently replace the Constitution would care if she gets enough momentum for an opponent to promote this.

[Simfan34]

I think he's done for. It's all over the news-- both mainstream and conservative.

[Famous Mortimer]

May I humbly suggest a scenario to root for? Since this will probably sink Carson and Fiorina's pro-Islam speech will probably sink her, the Cruz surge is probably coming. We want to see him stubbornly trail only Trump by only 5 points after he has made such a big show of (a) declining to attack anyone (b) cozying up to Trump. And then a frantic Cruz vs Trump to close out the year? That's fun.

This could sink Carson. No one gives a crap about Fiorina saying nice things about non-al Qaeda Muslims outside some Washington Express writer and Democrats on Atlas though.

I think the opposite is true. Democrats on Atlas don't care about it. A GOP primary electorate who fears Sharia Law will imminently replace the Constitution would care if she gets enough momentum for an opponent to promote this.

No Republican politician is going to launch an openly racist attack on her for saying that not all Muslims are bad.

[Bull Moose Base]

May I humbly suggest a scenario to root for? Since this will probably sink Carson and Fiorina's pro-Islam speech will probably sink her, the Cruz surge is probably coming. We want to see him stubbornly trail only Trump by only 5 points after he has made such a big show of (a) declining to attack anyone (b) cozying up to Trump. And then a frantic Cruz vs Trump to close out the year? That's fun.

This could sink Carson. No one gives a crap about Fiorina saying nice things about non-al Qaeda Muslims outside some Washington Express writer and Democrats on Atlas though.

I think the opposite is true. Democrats on Atlas don't care about it. A GOP primary electorate who fears Sharia Law will imminently replace the Constitution would care if she gets enough momentum for an opponent to promote this.

No Republican politician is going to launch an openly racist attack on her for saying that not all Muslims are bad.

Really? I think Jindal, Santorum and Rubio may attack Huckabee for not letting them attack her first.

[Senator Cris]

RIP

[Mr. Morden]

Carson responds:

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/13/politics/ben-carson-aborted-fetuses-research/index.html

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[Famous Mortimer]

Carson responds:

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/13/politics/ben-carson-aborted-fetuses-research/index.html

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This literal makes no sense. The last line is "the tissue that was used for this study was not collected for this study"

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/13/ben-carsons-tortured-defense-of-his-research-with-fetal-tissue/

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[daverep]

Just like only Nixon could go to China, only Carson could do research on brain tissue from aborted fetuses.

[Mr. Morden]

*bump*

More on Carson's past that's hard to square with his pro-life present:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/ben-carson-abortion-stance-121456.html?hp=t3_r

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[HillOfANight]

Carson's been nice to Trump, so Trump is holding his fire. The media will tear Carson down for him though. Great news for Trump.

[Bull Moose Base]

May I humbly suggest a scenario to root for? Since this will probably sink Carson and Fiorina's pro-Islam speech will probably sink her, the Cruz surge is probably coming. We want to see him stubbornly trail only Trump by only 5 points after he has made such a big show of (a) declining to attack anyone (b) cozying up to Trump. And then a frantic Cruz vs Trump to close out the year? That's fun.

This could sink Carson. No one gives a crap about Fiorina saying nice things about non-al Qaeda Muslims outside some Washington Express writer and Democrats on Atlas though.

I think the opposite is true. Democrats on Atlas don't care about it. A GOP primary electorate who fears Sharia Law will imminently replace the Constitution would care if she gets enough momentum for an opponent to promote this.

No Republican politician is going to launch an openly racist attack on her for saying that not all Muslims are bad.

Famous Mortimer, is there anything you would like to say to the board?

It turns out this was unnecessary to derail Fiorina but had she otherwise been able to maintain momentum and been where Carson is now, this would have been the scandal that ended her. (Likewise, it seems Carson getting caught as a serial liar and Ted Cruz hitting all the right notes might make it superfluous to hit him on fetal tissue research.) Anyway, the reason I dug this up was because I think the hypothetical scenario I posed in the initial quote is coming to frightening fruition. Trump is in Cruz's way and so Cruz will have to comically reverse himself on his Trump praise and self-righteous vow to refrain from attacks. Better than that, Rubio echoed the same ostensibly noble sentiment as Cruz and they've been furiously trading shots. Fun stuff.

[SillyAmerican]

This literal makes no sense. The last line is "the tissue that was used for this study was not collected for this study"

Sure it does. You can obtain tissue samples for a study without there being any connection between how and where those tissues came from and the group doing the study. That's what the doctor is saying: the tissue used was not collected specifically for that study. What doesn't make sense?

[TJ in Oregon]

And probably 95% of the posters here received a vaccine that was prepared using tissue taken from an aborted fetus. That doesn't make it right, but don't judge him too harshly.