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markpkessinger

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11. While I agree with Dr. Snyder . . .

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 03:01 PM

Jan 2025

. . . we should be careful about calling this a "clinical opinion." Snyder is a historian -- B,A. in history and political science from Brown, Ph.D. in modern history from Oxford -- and as such his opinion is not in any way a "clinical" one, although it may indeed be accurate.

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