[stanne]

Here’s Dr Carson on Cavuto Today:
Dr. Ben Carson claimed he would not have brought American ebola patients to the U.S. if he ran the CDC, saying it’s a factor of risk versus reward and “a matter of protecting the American populace.”

Carson appeared with Fox News host Neil Cavuto to discuss the transfer of two American ebola patients to CDC centers in the United States.

“Would you have brought those patients here?” Cavuto asked.

“No, I would not have,” Carson replied. “I’m not a risk-adverse person, but I think risks ought to be done in a logical way . . . The worst thing that can happen is so much worse than the best thing, you wouldn’t even consider putting people at risk.”

“It’s a matter of protecting the American populace,” he continued. “And that’s the duty of our government.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/06/matter-of-protecting-the-american-populace-dr-ben-carson-would-not-have-brought-ebola-to-the-u-s/#ixzz39fmIL7Oo

Here are his credentials:

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Alma mater
Yale University
University of Michigan Medical School

[ansel12]

I don’t care about Ben Carson, he is your guru, not mine.

You should ask him about letting Christian missionary doctors die yet you are fine with GIs coming home for life saving treatment.

[Cold Heat]

It’s a opinion....everyone has one...

Frankly I saw no reason not to bring these two back home.

and the government did not do it. But they could have stopped it by banning the flight.

I just could not justify that if it were my decision and knowing that these facilities do this sort of thing all the time. Just not with Ebola, that I know of and I don’t see Ebola as being the most dangerous of diseases in terms of containment. There are worse.

So I am having a hard time understanding the fear. Concern...yes...fear....no.

[Theophilus]

Carson's a brain surgeon but he's not well spoken: "Risks ought to be done in a logical way..."??? How does one "do" a "risk"?

Also arguing that the down side is much worse than the upside implies bad analysis because it does not take into account probabilities. The downside of getting into a passenger jet and augering in from five miles up at 500 mph is much worse than the upside of getting there quick, cheap and safe but the probabilty of the later is many orders of magnitude better then the former. I'm sure Carson flies all the time and he understands that.

I thinks he's demegouging with his expressed opinion about bringing the Ebola missionaries home and I think that's unfortunate.