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Hmm? Interesting. I was not aware of that and do not know if it true. What is clear is that the link has no people attributed to it and seems flatly anti-circumcision. I've never been a big fan of anonymous postings as this site is. However, when you get a site that says "The following is a list of institutions of higher education that fund and promote circumcision research and mass circumcision campaigns. Johns Hopkins, Kaiser Permanente and National Institutes of Health" -- all highly reputable institutions, then you lose me since I attribute your position to having little if any substantive evidence to support it and I prefer not to argue about the messenger instead of the message. So far as I can see the statistical bias is very strongly in favor of circumcision for health reasons. At bottom it is a personal choice which, the government, in my view, has no business being involved and certainly not some dumb woman who fancies herself a social scientist.

by herbert on 2012-06-14 21:16:52
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