Indeed. I’m right there with you on that point. I still remember the 400 Constitutional Scholars who took out a full page ad in the NYT in 1998 testifying that they believed that a bl@w j@b is not a high crime or misdemeanor. I remember this distinctly because ‘Dr.’ Doris Kearns Goodwin and author Stephen Ambrose (”Band of Brothers” author) were two prominent signatories.
IMO, where politics or ideology are involved, academic credentials don’t mean much.
It means sumthin when that supposed factoid is used as an excuse to invade another country in an obvious campaign of conquest.