Click Here to Read: ‘Goldwater Rule’ Still In Place Barring Many Psychiatrists From Commenting On Trump on the NPR website on July 25, 2017.
“The Goldwater Rule” was implemented in 1973, preventing psychiatrists from making armchair diagnoses, after Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president, successfully sued a magazine that published an article doubting his sanity.
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