Ben Carson may have lied about being 'the most honest student' in a Yale class

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As retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson defends his story about getting offered a scholarship to West Point Military Academy, other anecdotes he's shared over the years are being called into question.

The Wall Street Journal did some digging Friday, raising an eyebrow at one fitting story in Carson's 1990 autobiography, Gifted Hands. The Republican presidential hopeful had written that as a junior at Yale, his psychology professor told the class their final exams "inadvertently burned," so all 150 students would have to take a newer, harder test. Everyone except Carson walked out, he claimed, and described what happened next:

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.