BRATTLEBORO — In order to not immediately undermine the credibility of her entire piece, I would like Anna Mullany to provide the source for her statement: “One in three women in the military are raped by fellow service members.”
And to save time, let's not go with the evasive “anecdotal evidence” reply and provide something reasonably authoritative.
Quite frankly, I'm left wondering what it takes to get Ph.D. in public health at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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