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Re: They are on to something

Written by halfclip at 06 Jul 2002 20:11:11:

As an answer to: They are on to something written by Cry All You Want at 06 Jul 2002 18:30:21:

>Scientists and doctors devote years and even decades of their lives learning how
>to be objective and rational about medical and biological matters.

The problem is that in all too many cases, those famous studies are not done to find out what is true, but rather to support their own beliefs. This applies to both sides of the fence.

The pro-circ camp will find statistics that show lower incidence of problems without really qualifying the importance of such problems (or considering that better education of parents on how to teach the kids would almost eliminate such minor problems). ("People without noses, tend not to have runny noses when they have colds"). And the anti-circ camp will conveniently forget that there are still foreskin problems, even if it isn't worth it to snip all babies at birth.

The biggest problem I have with the anti circ camp is that their tactics want to eliminate all circumcisions instead of just those at birth. They want guys with phimosis to believe that their adult penis is perfectly normal with an unretractable foreskin etc etc.

And each camp will find ways to produce statistics that support their claims.

The one study which brought some refreshing news was the recent on in africa where they discovered a significant different in aids propagation between varous tibes and found that the differences in lifestyle was circumcision and then proceeded with some studies to find that it wasn't the glans that was different between cut and uncut, but rather the inner foreskin. The way they arrived at that conclusion seemed to indicate that they did not have an agenda when they begun and that their finding seems to be more believable.


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