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'''Thomas E. Wiswell''' , {{MD}}, was a doctor at [https://tricare.mil/mtf/Walterreed Walter Reed Army Medical Center].<refname=WiswellEtAl1993>{{REFjournal | last=Wiswell | first=ThomasE. | coauthorsinit=TE |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |last2=Hachey |first2=Wayne Hachey | pubyearinit2=1993-03W | title=Urinary Tract Infections and the Uncircumcised State: An Update | journal=Clinical Pediatrics | volume=32 | issue=3 | pages=130-4134 | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000992289303200301 | quote= | pubmedID=8453827 | DOI=10.1177/000992289303200301 |date=1993-03 |accessdate=2020-04-23}}</ref> He practices as neonatologist (Pediatrician who cares for and treats newborns in particular) among others in Honolulu, {{USSC|HI}},<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://health.usnews.com/doctors/thomas-wiswell-404405 |title=Dr. Thomas E. Wiswell,MD |website=US News | accessdate=20112020-04-2823}}</ref> and Orlando, {{USSC|FL}},<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.doctor.com/Dr-Thomas-Wiswell |title=Dr. Thomas E Wiswell,MD |website=doctor.com |accessdate=2020-04-23}}</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 infectionsinfection]]s.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wiswell |init=TE, |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |last2=Smith |init2=FR, |last3=Bass |init3=JW. |title=Decreased incidence of urinary tract infections in circumcised male infants. |journal=Pediatrics |date=1983 may;-05 |volume=75( |issue=5): |pages=901-3903}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wiswell |init=TE |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |title=Circumcision and urinary tract infections. |journal=Pediatrics |date=1986; |volume=77: |pages=267-8.268}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wiswell |init=TE, |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |last2=Roscelli |init2=JD. |title=Corroborative evidence for the decreased incidence of urinary tract infection in circumcised male infants. |journal=Pediatrics |date=1986; |volume=78: |pages=96-99.}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wiswell |init=TE, |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |last2=Enzenauer |init2=RW, |last3=Holton |init3=ME, |last4=Cornish |init4=JD, |last5=Hankins |init5=CT. |title=Declining frequency of circumcision: implications for changes in the absolute incidence and male to female sex ratio of urinary tract infections in early infancy. |journal=Pediatrics |date=1987; |volume=79: |pages=338-42.342}}</ref><ref>Wiswell TE, Hachey WE. Urinary tract infections and the uncircumcised state: an update. Clin Pediatr (Phila) 1993; 32: 130-4.<name=WiswellEtAl1993/ref> All have long since been thoroughly discredited.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=AAP Task Force on Circumcision. |title=Circumcision Policy Statement. |journal=Pediatrics |date=1999; |volume=103( |issue=3): |pages=686-693.}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Van Howe |init=RS. |author-link=Robert Van Howe |title=Effect of confounding in the association between circumcision status and urinary tract infection. |journal=J Infect |date=2005; |volume=51( |issue=1): |pages=59-68.}}</ref> Wiswell's retroactive "studies" had serious methodological flaws, however circumcision 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 | last=Morris | first=BrianJ. |init=BJ |author-link=Brian J. Morris | year=2007 | title=Sex and circumcision: What every woman needs to know | url=http://www.circinfo.net/pdfs/GFW-EN%200712-1.pdf | editor=[[Vernon G. Quaintance | edition= | volume= | chapter= | pages=]] | location=London, England | publisher=[[Gilgal Society | isbn= | note= | accessdate=]]

| last=Thomas | first=A. |init=A | year=2005 | title=Circumcision: An Ethomedical Study | url=http://www.circleaks.org/images/d/d6/Gilgal_porn.pdf | editor=[[Vernon G. Quaintance | edition=]] | volume=4 | chapter=Case histories and experiences of circumcision | pagespage=191 | location=London, England | publisher=The [[Gilgal Society | isbn= | note= | accessdate=]] | ID = EMS-EN 0304-2}}</ref><ref>{{REFbook |last=Price |first=Christopher P. |init=CP |author-link=Christopher P . Price. |chapter=Male Non-therapeutic circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues. In |title=Male and Female Circumcision, Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice ( |editors=[[George C. Denniston|Denniston GC]], [[Frederick M. Hodges|Hodges FM and ]], [[Marilyn Fayre Milos|Milos MF eds.) ]] |location=New York: |publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, |date=1999: |pages=425-454. 54 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/price2/}}</ref> Wiswell has allied himself with [[Brian J. Morris]] and other circumcision advocates since 2009. He co-authors articles with Morris and others.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Morris |init=BJ |author-link=Brian J. Morris |last2=Bailis |init2=SA |author2-link=Stefan A. Bailis |last3=Waskett |init3=JH |author3-link=Jake H. Waskett |last4=Wiswell |init4=TE |author4-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |last5=Halperin |init5=DT |author5-link=Daniel T. Halperin |etal=no |title=Medicaid coverage of newborn circumcision: a health parity right of the poor |journal=Am J Public Health |date=2009-06 |volume=99 |issue=6 |pages=969-971 |pubmedID=19372502 |DOI=10.2105/AJPH.2009.161281 |accessdate=2019-10-22}}</ref>

| 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| lang=

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