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==Myth-maker==
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'''Thomas E. Wiswell''', {{MD}}, was a doctor at [https://tricare.mil/mtf/Walterreed Walter Reed Army Medical Center].<ref name=WiswellEtAl1993>{{REFjournal
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}}</ref> USA. Wiswell is a common Jewish surname ([[bias|Why is this important?]]). Wiswell is generally believed to be a [[Circumcised doctors| circumcised doctor]]. Wiswell now practices medicine in Honolulu, Hawaii, [[USA]]. He is regarded as a promoter of unnecessary, harmful, [[Pain| painful]], [[Trauma| traumatic]] infant [[circumcision]].
==Myth-maker==
Starting in 1983, he began to produce a series of egregiously flawed studies that falsely claimed [[circumcision]] reduced the incidence of [[urinary tract infection]]s.<ref>{{REFjournal
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}}</ref> Wiswell's retroactive "studies" had serious methodological flaws, however circumcision advocate promoter [[Edgar J. Schoen]] chose to cite these studies in the [https://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap/#a1989 1989 AAP Circumcision Policy statement]. This started the myth that infant [[circumcision ]] can prevent [[urinary tract infection]]. UTI after circumcision is an issue in [[Israel]].
Wiswell associates with the [[Gilgal Society]],<ref>{{REFbook
* [[Jake H. Waskett]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[United States of America]]
* [[Urinary tract infection]]
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