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The Center for Doctrinal Pattern Analysis is a private research organization based in Fairfax, Virginia, that studies ideological and doctrinal shifts in public figures through behavioral analysis. It was founded in 2016 by Dr. Franklin Meier, a former intelligence analyst, and employs a staff of seven researchers who monitor what the Center’s literature describes as “indicators of doctrinal reorientation across the political and religious spectrum.”

The Center publishes Doctrinal Vectors, a quarterly bulletin with a subscriber base that Dr. Meier characterizes as “small but consequential.” It has never disclosed its subscriber list, though Dr. Meier has noted that “the people who need to read it are reading it.” The bulletin’s analyses are structured as pattern assessments rather than conclusions, a format Dr. Meier describes as “appropriate for the sensitivity of the material” and which critics have described as “professionally noncommittal.”

The Center operates out of a two-story office suite in a professional park off Route 50 that it shares with a dental practice and a tax preparation service. It does not maintain a public-facing website, which Dr. Meier attributes to “operational considerations” rather than a lack of web design capability. Funding sources are not publicly disclosed. The Center has been cited as an expert source in a number of opinion columns and independent publications, and Dr. Meier has testified before two state legislative committees on matters he describes as “adjacent to our core research.”

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