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'''Thomas E. Wiswell''' was a doctor at [https://tricare.mil/mtf/Walterreed Walter Reed Army Medical Center].<ref>{{REFjournal
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}}</ref> Wiswell is a common Jewish surname ([[bias|Why is this important?]]).
Starting in 1983, he began to produce a series of egregiously flawed studies that falsely claimed [[circumcision ]] reduced the incidence of urinary tract infections.<ref>{{REFjournal
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{{Citation
|Title=Easy Money
|Text=I have some good friends who are obstetricians outside the military, and they look at a [[foreskin ]] and almost see a $125 price tag on it. Each one is that much money. Heck, if you do 10 a week, that's over $1,000 a week, and they don't take that much time.
|Author=Wiswell (1987-6-22)
|Source=The age-old question of circumcision. Boston Globe, p.43