Did CBS/60 Minutes publish an episode in 2025 featuring Ben Carson on dementia?
Executive summary
CBS’s 60 Minutes archive and program listings provided in the reporting show dementia-focused episodes in prior years but contain no evidence that 60 Minutes aired an episode in 2025 featuring Ben Carson on dementia; CBS’s 60 Minutes site lists 2025 interviews with other public figures but not Carson [1] [2]. Multiple fact-checks document that social posts linking Ben Carson to “cures” or products for dementia/Alzheimer’s are false and that Carson has denied involvement with such treatments [3] [4].
1. What the records at CBS show about 60 Minutes and dementia coverage
CBS’s 60 Minutes maintains an online archive of full episodes and segments that includes dementia-themed reports from past seasons — for example, a 2018 multi-part check-in on a woman living with Alzheimer’s (aired August 12, 2018) and a 2020 segment about frontotemporal dementia (aired February 2, 2020) — confirming that 60 Minutes has covered dementia before [5] [6]. The program’s official episode pages and the CBS “60 Minutes — Full Episodes” landing page list recent and upcoming interviews for 2025 by name, including high-profile subjects such as Marjorie Taylor Greene and President Donald Trump, but the materials provided do not include any episode listing or segment titled as featuring Ben Carson on dementia in 2025 [1] [2].
2. What independent fact-checkers documented about Ben Carson and dementia-related claims
Independent fact-checkers have repeatedly debunked social-media claims that Ben Carson discovered or endorsed a diet, nasal spray, or other product that cures or reverses dementia or Alzheimer’s; Reuters reported in January 2024 that a viral post claiming Carson “cured dementia with diet” was false and that Carson’s representative called the claim “completely fake” [3]. AFP similarly reported in December 2024 that clips and ads claiming Carson and singer Reba McEntire developed a nasal spray to prevent or reverse Alzheimer’s were fabricated, noting altered audio and denials from Carson’s camp and other spokespeople [4]. Those fact-checks establish a pattern of false associations between Carson’s name and unproven dementia treatments [3] [4].
3. Reconciling the absence of a 2025 Carson episode with the spread of related claims
Given that CBS’s own episode listings provided here show specific 2025 interview subjects but do not list Carson, and that the archive clearly contains earlier dementia pieces without any indication of a 2025 Carson segment, the simplest reading of the assembled reporting is that no 60 Minutes episode in 2025 featuring Ben Carson on dementia exists in the provided records [5] [1] [6] [2]. At the same time, the fact-checking sources explain why online claims linking Carson to dementia “cures” proliferate: manipulated ads and altered audio have been used to attach his name to products he never endorsed, creating plausible but false impressions that can be mistaken for legitimate broadcast appearances [3] [4].
4. Alternative explanations and implicit agendas to consider
Three alternative explanations could produce the rumor of a 2025 60 Minutes-Carson episode: a) social-media clips repackaging or overdubbing earlier CBS footage to falsely imply a new interview, b) opportunistic ad pages styled like news sites claiming an endorsement by Carson to sell products, and c) deliberate misinformation campaigns that exploit recognizable media brands (like 60 Minutes) to lend credibility; the fact-checks document manipulation of audio and fake article layouts as tactics used in related scams, indicating commercial and attention-driven motives behind the false claims [3] [4]. The provided reporting does not include direct evidence of any of these exact mechanisms tied to a specific 2025 post, so that interpretation is offered as consistent with documented patterns rather than proven in a single instance [3] [4].
5. Bottom line and limitations of the reporting
Based on CBS’s episode pages and the fact-checking reports supplied, there is no evidence in the provided sources that 60 Minutes published an episode in 2025 featuring Ben Carson on dementia; CBS’s 60 Minutes listings for 2025 show other interview subjects and the archive confirms dementia coverage in earlier years but not a Carson segment in 2025 [5] [1] [6] [2]. This conclusion is limited to the documents and fact-checking excerpts presented here; absent a complete crawl of every social post, transcript, or unaired clip, the reporting cannot categorically exclude the remote possibility of an obscure or misattributed video circulating online, but the available authoritative sources do not substantiate the claim that CBS/60 Minutes aired such an episode in 2025 [3] [4] [1].