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[[File:Davidpakanrebelwisom2019.png|thumb|Pakman in 2019]] | |||
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' ({{LifeData|birth=1984-02-02|birthplace=Buenos Aires|birthcountry=Argentina|death=|deathplace=|}}) was born into an Ashkenazi Jewish family and presumably was [[circumcised]] in accordance with the [[Abrahamic covenant]], most likely by a [[mohel]] on the eighth day of his life. We now understand that infant [[Brit Milah|circumcision]] is an [[Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)|adverse childhood experience]] and causes physical and psychic [[trauma]]. Pakman lost his [[foreskin]] in infancy so he has no personal experience of the functions and sensations of the foreskin. Pakman is a victim of circumcision. | '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' ({{LifeData|birth=1984-02-02|birthplace=Buenos Aires|birthcountry=Argentina|death=|deathplace=|}}) was born into an Ashkenazi Jewish family and presumably was [[circumcised]] in accordance with the [[Abrahamic covenant]], most likely by a [[mohel]] on the eighth day of his life. We now understand that infant [[Brit Milah|circumcision]] is an [[Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)|adverse childhood experience]] and causes physical and psychic [[trauma]]. Pakman lost his [[foreskin]] in infancy so he has no personal experience of the functions and sensations of the foreskin. Pakman is a victim of circumcision. | ||
==Effects of trauma== | ==Effects of trauma== | ||
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In his adult life he became a television journalist and political pundit. His usual subject matter is American politics. | In his adult life he became a television journalist and political pundit. His usual subject matter is American politics. | ||
He has turned from his usual political fare to do promotional videos for non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. In these videos he has closely adhered to the [[Bias| biased]] advocacy positions of the [[medical trade association| medical trade associations]], which promote the income and welfare of doctors. | He has turned from his usual political fare to do promotional videos for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys. In these videos he has closely adhered to the [[Bias| biased]] advocacy positions of the [[medical trade association| medical trade associations]], which promote the income and welfare of doctors. | ||
* In one video he praised the 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement of the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] (AAP), which is a [[medical trade association]]. He is seemingly unaware that the 2012 AAP statement has received severe and unrelenting critical comment from both domestic and foreign sources | * In one video he praised the 2012 Circumcision Policy Statement<ref name="aap2012">{{REFjournal | ||
|last=AAP Task Force on Circumcision | |||
|title=Circumcision policy statement | |||
|url=http://gentleproceduresdallas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Manual-Infant-Circumcision.pdf | |||
|journal=Pediatrics | |||
|date=2012 | |||
|volume=130 | |||
|pages=585-6 | |||
|DOI=10.1542/peds.2012-1989 | |||
|format=PDF | |||
}}</ref> of the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] (AAP), which is a [[medical trade association]]. He is seemingly unaware that the 2012 AAP statement has received [[American_Academy_of_Pediatrics#Criticism| severe and unrelenting critical comment from both domestic and foreign sources]], so was allowed to expire without being reaffirmed, because it was so bad. | |||
* In another video, he praised the 2015 Circumcision Policy Statement of the [[Canadian Paediatric Society]] (CPS), was was based on the hopelessly flawed 2012 AAP statement, seemingly unaware that the CPS is another [[medical trade association]]. | * In another video, he praised the 2015 Circumcision Policy Statement<ref name="cps2015">{{REFjournal | ||
|last=Sorokin | |||
|first=S. Todd | |||
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|last2=Finlay | |||
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|title=Newborn male circumcision | |||
|journal=Paediatr Child Health | |||
|location= | |||
|date=2015-08 | |||
|volume=20 | |||
|issue=6 | |||
|pages=311-20 | |||
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578472/ | |||
|quote= | |||
|pubmedID=26435672 | |||
|pubmedCID=4578472 | |||
|DOI=10.1093/pch/20.6.311 | |||
|accessdate=2023-05-31 | |||
}}</ref> of the [[Canadian Paediatric Society]] (CPS), was was based on the hopelessly flawed 2012 AAP statement, seemingly unaware that the CPS is another [[medical trade association]]. | |||
* | * In a third video, he quoted from the work of Australian Professor [[Brian J. Morris]], Ph.D., whose claims have been rejected in his home nation of [[Australia]]. Morris is another traumatized victim of infant [[circumcision]], who has followed a similar pattern of promoting injurious, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]]. | ||
* In a fourth video, he absurdly claimed that circumcision does not reduce [[foreskin sensitivity| sexual sensitivity]]. This is a mistake that only a man [[circumcised]] in infancy and in '''''denial of loss''''' could make — again similar to Brian J. Morris. | |||
Pakman, so far, has produced nine videos in which he promotes the official stance of the [[circumcision industry]]. Pakman's behavior is representative of the behavior of men deeply affected by the [[pain]] and [[trauma]] of infant non-therapeutic circumcision. He appears to be engaged in '''''denial of loss''''' from his own circumcision. | |||
==Rebuttal video== | |||
An hour-long video to rebut Pakman's absurd claims has been published. | |||
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* <youtube>v=s9A6gPT55zQ</youtube> | |||
{{SEEALSO}} | |||
* [[Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)]] | |||
* [[Psychological issues of male circumcision]] | |||
* [[United States of America]] | |||
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