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[[File:GeraldWeiss.jpg|thumb|{{Construction SiteFULLPAGENAME}}]]The late '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', M.D.{{MD}}, ({{LifeData|1923-06-14|2021-12-20}}), was a Jewish medical doctor and advocate of male [[circumcision]].
==Early life==
Gerald Weiss was born in New Orleans, {{USSC|LA}}, on 14 June 1923 and was most likely [[Brit Milah| circumcised]] on the eighth day in accordance with the [[Abrahamic covenant]]. He graduated [https://medicine.tulane.edu/ Tulane Medical School] in 1945.
==Adult life==
Weiss's military career took him to Washington, {{USSC|DC}}, where he met and married Elaine Judith Bressler in 1948. They had three children. The Weiss family were strong believers in [[Judaism]].
The Weisses moved to northern Colorado after his retirement where he helped to start [https://templeorhadash.org/ Temple Or Hadash].<ref>{{REFweb
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Weiss died in northern Colorado on 20 December 2021 at the age of 98 years.
==Professional life==
Weiss joined the United States Army as an aviation medical officer in 1945. Later he practiced medicine for about 25 years as a general surgeon in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Later he joined the [https://www.airforce.com/ United States Air Force] as a Flight Surgeon with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
As with many other [[circumcised doctors]], Weiss was an advocate of child [[circumcision]]. Weiss et al. (1993) speculated that the [[Langerhans cells]] in the [[prepuce]] may serve as a portal-of-entry for [[HIV]] infection.<ref name="weiss1993">{{REFjournal
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|title=The distribution and density of Langerhans cells in the human prepuce: site of a diminished immune response?
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}}</ref> Unfortunately, Weiss's false claims published in an Israeli medical journal served to buttress the equally false claims of [[Aaron J. Fink]] and give them an appearance of credibility they did not deserve and set the foundation for the three African randomized controlled trials that erroneously and falsely promoted male circumcision as a preventative for HIV infection,<ref name="boyle2011">{{BoyleGJ HillG 2011}}</ref> and eventually lead to [[PEPFAR]].
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* {{REFjournal |last=Weiss |first= |init=GN |author-link=Gerald N. Weiss |etal=no |title=Neonatal circumcision |journal=South Med J |location= |date=1985-10 |volume=78 |issue=10 |article= |page= |pages=1198-200 |url= |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=4049038 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1097/00007611-198510000-00014 |accessdate=2022-10-28}}* {{REFjournal |last=Weiss |first=Gerald N. |init=GN |author-link=Gerald N. Weiss |last2=Sanders |first2= |init2=M |author2-link= |last3=Westbrook |first3= |init3=KC |author3-link= |etal=no |title=The distribution and density of Langerhans cells in the human prepuce: site of a diminished immune response? |journal= Isr J Med Sci |location= |date=1993-01 |volume=20 |issue=1 |article= |page= |pages=42-3 |url= |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=8454447 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2022-10-28}}* {{REFjournal |last=Weiss |first=Gerald N. |init=GN |author-link=Gerald N. Weiss |last2=Weiss |first2= |init2=EB |author2-link= |etal=no |title=A perspective on controversies over neonatal circumcision |journal=Clin Pediatr (Phila) |location= |date=1994-12 |season= |volume=33 |issue=12 |pages=726-30 |url= |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=7874825 |pubmedCID= |DOI= 10.1177/000992289403301204 |accessdate=2022-10-28}}{{SEEALSO}}* [[Bias]]* [[Judaism]]* [[United States of America]]
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* [https://www.vesseyfuneralservice.com/obituary/Gerald-Weiss Gerald N. Weiss Obituary]
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