Brian J. Morris: Difference between revisions

  |first=Brian J.

  |init=BJ

  |last2=Gray

  |first3=Xavier

  |init3=X

  |first4=F. Xavier

  |init4=FX

  |first5=Daniel T.

  |init5=DT

  |init6=CA

  |first7=Jake H.

  |init7=JH

  |author7-link=Jake H. Waskett

  |date=2011-03-09

  |title=The Strong Protective Effect of Circumcision Against Cancer of the Penis

  |journal=Advanced in Urology

  |url=http://www.hindawi.com/journals/au/aip/812368/

  |accessdate=2011-03-13

}}</ref> ({{LifeData|birth=1950-07-14}}<ref>{{REFweb

  |last=Morris

  |first=Brian J.

  |date=2010-03-04

  |title=Professor Brian Morris

  |last=Morris

  |first=Brian J.

  |date=2010

  |title=About the Author - Professor Brian J. Morris

  |init=BJ

  |author-link=Brian J. Morris

  |title=In favour of circumcision

  |location=Sydney, {{AUSC|NSW}}, Australia

  |publisher={{UNI|University of New South Wales|UNSW}} Press

  |isbn=0-86840-537-X

}}</ref> who's never heard an argument for circumcision he didn't like.<ref>{{REFweb

  |last=Morris

  |first=Brian J.

  |date=2010

  |title=Circumcision - Physical Problems

  |last=Morris

  |first=Brian J.

  |date=2010

  |title=Why Medical Bodies and Others Should Not Advise That Circumcision Should be Delayed Until the Boy Can Make the Decision for Himself

  |url=http://www.circinfo.net/pdfs/GFW-EN%200712-1.pdf

  |editor=Vernon Quaintance

  |location=London, England

  |publisher=Gilgal Society

}} Archive: [[File:Gilgal For Women leaflet.pdf]]</ref><ref name="guide4parents">{{REFbook

  |last=Morris

  |title=Circumcision: A guide for parents

  |url=http://www.circinfo.net/pdfs/GFP-ENAU.pdf

  |location=London, England

  |publisher=Gilgal Society

  |accessdate=2011-03-06

}} Archive: [[File:Gilgal Parents-Guide.pdf]]</ref><ref name="wayback-gilgal-leaflets">{{REFweb

  |title=Guide For Women

  |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20110518085430/http://www.circinfo.net/

  |accessdate=2011-05-18

}}</ref> who publishes circumcision propaganda, fetish stories of young boys being [[circumcised]] while others masturbate, and other materials. Gilgal Society has doctors and (circumcision to prevent [[HIV]]) researchers among their members.<ref>[[Gilgal Society]] - See article for citations.</ref> Gilgal is headed by [[Vernon Quaintance]], who was recently arrested for child pornography.<ref name="pedophile">{{REFnews

  |url=http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/Croydon-circumcision-campaigner-caught-child-porn/story-15866127-detail/story.html

  |title=Croydon circumcision campaigner caught with child porn videos

  |date=2012-04-21

  |publisher=Croydon Advertiser

  |accessdate=2012-04-22

}} Archive 2012-04-21: http://circleaks.org/images/2/27/Www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk-Croydon-circumcision-campaigner-caught-child-porn-s.pdf</ref><ref name="malta">{{REFnews

  |last=Kay

  |first=Richard

  |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134978/David-Cameron-son-PM-wife-Samantha-unveil-church-tribute-son-Ivan.html

  |title=Sex scandal rocks Order of the Knights

  |date=2012-04-25

  |publisher=GlamEntertainment

  |accessdate=2012-04-26

}} Archive (2012-04-27): http://circleaks.org/images/6/66/Quaintance-disrupts-the-church%28malta%29.pdf</ref>

  |first=Jake H.

  |init=JH

  |first2=Brian J.

  |init2=BJ

  |author2-link=Brian J. Morris

  |date=2007-05

  |pages=1551-1552

  |url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118508593/HTMLSTART

  |pubmedID=17537227

  |DOI=10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.06970_6.x

}}</ref> who was the number one Wikipedia editor of any articles on circumcision, or are even somewhat related to circumcision.<ref>{{REFweb

  |last=Waskett

  |first=Jake H.

  |title=User contributions

  |url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jakew

  |journal=The American Association of Anesthesiologists Newsletter

  |date=1998-09-01

}}</ref> Infant circumcision has been shown to be traumatic in many cases.<ref>{{REFjournal

  |last=Levy

  |date=1945

  |volume=69

  |pages=7-25

  |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/levy1/

}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal

  |last=Taddio

  |quote=It is, therefore, possible that the greater vaccination response in the infants circumcised without anaesthesia may represent an infant analogue of a post-traumatic stress disorder triggered by a traumatic and painful event and re-experienced under similar circumstances of pain during vaccination.

  |pubmedID=9057731  

  |DOI=10.1016/S0140-6736(96)10316-0

}}</ref> The extent of little Brian's trauma, if any, is not known.

  |init2=G

  |author2-link=George Hill

  |title=Circumcision‐generated emotions bias medical literature

  |journal=BJU Int

  |date=2012

  |volume=109

Brian Morris tried to use his status as a professor at the {{UNI|University of Sydney|USYD}} to pressure the university to sack Dr. Karl S. Kruszelnicki, from his position as Julius Sumner Miller Fellow in the School of Physics.<ref>{{REFweb

  |quote=Brian Morris tried to use his status as a professor at Sydney University to pressure the university to sack Dr Kruszelnicki from his position as Julius Sumner Miller Fellow in the School of Physics.

  |website=Circumcision Information Australia

  |title=Dr Karl on the origins of circumcision

  |url=http://www.circinfo.org/Dr_Karl.html

  |last=Kruszelnicki

  |first=Karl S.

  |title=May the foreskin be with you

  |date=2004-01-10

  |publisher=Good Weekend

  |accessdate=2012-12-23

}}</ref> prompting a fierce attack from Brian Morris. Firstly, Morris tried writing in response to the article.<ref>{{REFweb

  |quote=Dr Karl Kruszelnicki ignores the massive scientific support for the benefits of circumcision (Weekender, January 10) and instead presents only extremist anti-circ nonsense from the likes of Paul Fleiss.

  |publisher=Circumcision Information Australia

  |title=Dr Karl on the origins of circumcision

  |url=http://www.circinfo.org/Dr_Karl.html

''Professor Brian Morris''<br>

''{{UNI|University of Sydney|USYD}}''

}}

In addition to writing a letter to the newspaper, and trying to get the {{UNI|University of Sydney|USYD}} to sack Dr Kruszelnicki from his position, Morris also filed a formal complaint of bias against the Sydney Morning Herald with the Australian Press Council.<ref>{{REFweb

  |quote=Morris also filed a formal complaint of bias against the Sydney Morning Herald with the Australian Press Council.

  |website=Circumcision Information Australia

  |title=Dr Karl on the origins of circumcision

  |url=http://www.circinfo.org/Dr_Karl.html

  |accessdate=2012-12-23

}}</ref> These efforts were not successful, however, and the press council dismissed his complaint.<ref>{{REFnews

  |title=May the foreskin be with you

  |date=2004-04-13

This study was preceded by three other publications based on the same dataset, dealing with sexual dysfunctions in Danish men and women in relation to socioeconomic factors, health factors and lifestyle factors, respectively, which were swimmingly published without serious criticisms from peer reviewers in the two most prestigious US journals of sexual health, the ''Journal of Sexual Medicine'' and ''Archives of Sexual Behavior''. After adding the variable of male circumcision status to the analysis, however, the study was met with extremely critical reviews of everything about the entire dataset.<ref>{{REFweb

  |date=2012-12-06

  |title=Circumcision and Sexual Function Difficulties

  |author-link=Morten Frisch

  |title=Author's Response to: Does sexual function survey in [[Denmark]] offer any support for male circumcision having an adverse effect?

  |date=2012-02

  |volume=41

  |Text=I would like to thank the IJE editors for withstanding the pressure from one particularly discourteous and bullying reviewer who went to extremes to prevent our study from being published. After the paper's online publication, I have received emails from colleagues around the world who felt our contribution was useful and potentially important. One colleague informed me that the angry reviewer was the first author of the above letter to the editor. In an email, Morris had called people on his mailing list to arms against our study, openly admitting that he was the reviewer and that he had tried to get the paper rejected. To inspire his followers, Morris had attached his two exceedingly long and aggressive reviews of our paper (12858 words and 5291 words, respectively), calling for critical letters in abundance to the IJE editors. Breaking unwritten confidentiality and courtesy rules of the peer-review process, Morris distributed his slandering criticism of our study to people working for the same cause.

  |Author=Morten Frisch

  |ref=<ref name="Frisch reply 2012"/>

}}

  |last=Young

  |first=Hugh

  |title=Intactivism News

  |url=http://www.circumstitions.com/news/news45.html#vernon2

  |last=Morris

  |first=Brian J.

  |date=2000-11-09

  |title=Medical benefits from circumcision

  |last=Morris

  |first=Brian J.

  |date=2007-08-29

  |title=Circumcision Websites & Online Discussion Groups

  |last=Quaintance

  |first=Vernon

  |title=The Gilgal Society

  |url=http://www.gilgalsoc.org/

}} Archive: [[File:Gilgalsoc mainpage.pdf]]</ref>

* Circlist (German)<ref>{{REFweb

  |title=Circlist

  |url=http://www.circlist.hasibubu.de

  |publisher=Circlist

}}</ref>

* Circlist (Yahoo Asian)<ref>{{REFweb

  |title=Asian-pro-circumcision

  |url=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asian_circlist/

  |publisher=Yahoo

}}</ref>

* Erotic Male Circumcision<ref>{{REFweb

  |title=Erotic Male Circumcision

  |url=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eroticmalecircumcision/

  |publisher=Yahoo

}}</ref>

* Circumcised Kids<ref>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circumcisedkids/</ref>

  |last=Morris

  |first=Brian J.

  |date=2007-08-29

  |title=Circumcision Websites & Online Discussion Groups

}} Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20070829145507/circinfo.net/circumcision_websites_online_discussion_groups.html</ref>

* SCARandACORN<ref>{{REFweb

  |title=SCARandACORN: Interseted in the subject of circumcision, particularly those with personal experience. Against the tide of anti-circumcision.

  |url=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCARandACORN/

  |publisher=Yahoo

}}</ref>

* Teen Circ<ref>{{REFweb

  |title=Teen Circumcision

  |url=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teen_circ_/

  |publisher=Yahoo

}}</ref>

* Cutting Club<ref>{{REFweb

  |title=The Cutting Club

  |url=http://www.eurocirc.org/cuttingclub

  |accessdate=

}}</ref>

* A list of places to get circumcision devices<ref>{{REFweb

  |title=TARA KLamp

  |last=Morris

  |first=Brian J.

  |title=Circumcision Humor

  |url=http://www.circinfo.net/circumcision_humor.html

  |accessdate=2011-03-06

}} Archive: [[File:Circinfo-Humor.pdf]]</ref> It also contains a picture of a naked child, with a folding cellphone clamped onto his foreskin, dangling from the end of his penis, on the humor section of his website.<ref>{{REFweb

  |last=Morris

  |first=Brian J.

  |title=Circumcision Humor

  |url=http://www.circinfo.net/circumcision_humor.html

  |accessdate=2012-04-22

}} Archive (2012-04-21): http://circleaks.org/images/5/5a/Circinfo_humor.pdf</ref> It appears as if an adult purposely put the cell phone there and took the picture.

  |last=Morris

  |first=Brian J.

  |date=2010

  |title=Anti - Circumcision Lobby Groups

  |last=Waskett

  |first=Jake H.

  |title=User:Jakew

  |url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jakew

  |Text=A subgroup of the gay community practice “docking”, a sexual practice that requires the foreskin. Naturally such men would want to ensure that an adequate supply of boys with foreskins are coming up through the ranks, where a proportion will have an orientation towards males. Why don’t those who wish to outlaw male circumcision be honest enough to admit the REAL reason for their campaign? And by the way, “docking” is regarded on gay health websites as unsafe sex, as it exposes the vulnerable mucosal inner lining of the foreskin to infection by [[HIV]], to name just some of the medical hazards posed by the foreskin.

  |Author=Brian J. Morris

}}

: '''fet·ish''' [fet-ish, fee-tish]<br>

: ''Psychology.'' Any object or <span style="background:#ffe9aa">nongenital</span> part of the body that causes a habitual erotic response or fixation.<ref>{{REFweb

  |title=Fetish

  |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fetish

  |Title=Mandatory

  |Text=Circumcision should be made compulsitory.

}}

  |Title=Intact males are having sex

  |Text=Because parents have been encouraged not to circumcise their kids, what we're now seeing is a big rise in number of [[uncircumcised]] males entering the sexually active community.

}}

  |Title=Bathroom Splatter

  |Text=Boys and men who are not circumcised can be a source of irritation if they do not retract the foreskin when they urinate, as 'splatter' will occur.

}}

  |Title=Zipper Injury

  |Text=In [[uncircumcised]] boys the foreskin can become accidentally entrapped in zippers, resulting in pain, trauma, swelling and scarring of this appendage. Foreskin accidents in men can also occur.

}}

  |Title=Saving lives?

  |Text=Millions of lives will be saved by universal circumcision.

}}

  |Title=Women, be afraid!

  |Text=Circumcision must be advocated for reducing [[AIDS]], and the impact on [[cervical cancer]] and other conditions in women.

}}

  |Title=Intact penises kill people

  |Text=The benefits exceed the risks by 100 to 1. One in three males--as a conservative estimate--will get a medical problem, many will die, if they're not circumcised. I'm being very serious about this.

}}

  |Title=A ''Good Talking To''

  |Text=For sure, there will be people who don't want it done, just as there are opponents of vaccination, but the benefits are so incredibly vast that any parent not wanting their child circumcised REALLY needs a good talking to.

}}

  |Title = Whose Responsibility?

  |Text=The greatest benefits accrue the earlier in life the procedure is performed. If left till later ages the individual has already been exposed to the risk of urinary tract infections, the physical problems and carries a residual risk of penile cancer. Moreover, it would take a very street-wise, outgoing, adolescent male to make this decision and undertake the process of ensuring that it was done. [...] many will suffer in silence rather than seek medical advice or treatment. Really though parental responsibility must over-ride arguments based on 'the rights of the child'.

  |Source=circinfo.net

}}

== Mandatory circumcision ==

Morris thinks circumcision should be required by law.<ref name="sundaynightcirc">{{REFweb

  |title=Sunday Night Circumcision

  |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yDvL4hNny4#t=1m18s

  |accessdate=2011-03-06

}} Archive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdGbXdEo93U</ref>

to these boys, who were proud to show that they were now ‘men’. In other cultures it is associated with preparation for marriage and as a sign of entry

into manhood.

}}

== CircLeaks incident ==

On March 7th 2011, a new user account by the name of [[User:Brianm|Brianm]] signed up for Circleaks,<ref>Circleaks user creation log, 00:08 March 7th 2011 http://circleaks.org/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=newusers&user=Brianm&page=&year=&month=-1</ref> attempted to blank this page,<ref>Circleaks history log for Brian J. Morris, 00:15 March 7th 2011 http://circleaks.org/index.php?title=Brian_J._Morris&curid=28&diff=3112&oldid=2363</ref> then successfully blanked the page entirely.<ref>Circleaks history log for Brian J. Morris, 00:19 March 7th 2011 http://circleaks.org/index.php?title=Brian_J._Morris&curid=28&diff=3113&oldid=3112</ref> A few minutes later [[User:Brianm|Brianm]] added Brian Morris' website (circinfo.net) to the page,<ref>Circleaks history log for Brian J. Morris, 00:24 March 7th 2011 http://circleaks.org/index.php?title=Brian_J._Morris&curid=28&diff=3114&oldid=3113</ref> then added and removed edit=brianm.<ref>Circleaks history log for Brian J. Morris, 00:29 March 7th 2011 http://circleaks.org/index.php?title=Brian_J._Morris&curid=28&diff=3116&oldid=3114</ref><ref>Circleaks history log for Brian J. Morris, 00:29 March 7th 2011 http://circleaks.org/index.php?title=Brian_J._Morris&curid=28&diff=3117&oldid=3116</ref> At this point an Administrator reverted the removal,<ref>Circleaks history log for Brian J. Morris, 00:30 March 7th 2011 http://circleaks.org/index.php?title=Brian_J._Morris&curid=28&diff=3118&oldid=3117</ref> and locked the page due to repeated attempts of removal without discussion.<ref>Circleaks history log for Brian J. Morris, 00:31 March 7th 2011 http://circleaks.org/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=protect&user=&page=Brian+J.+Morris&year=&month=-1</ref> A message was then posted on [[User talk:Brianm|Brianm's talkpage]], notifying the user that their removals have been reverted, that if a statement is shown to be false it will be removed, and that registering simply to delete content that's incriminating to someone isn't compatible with Circleaks wiki policies.<ref>Circleaks history log for [[User talk:Brianm]], 19:02 March 7th 2011 http://circleaks.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Brianm</ref> A Circleaks administrator checked the IP address of [[user:brianm|brianm]] and found the user to be in Australia, {{AUSC|NSW}}, Sydney, {{UNI|University of Sydney|USYD}}.<ref>{{REFweb

  |title=IP Tracing and IP Tracking

  |url=http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/129.78.32.22

  |last=Campbell

  |first=Hank

  |date=2011-03-07

  |title=Like AIDS? Then You Will Love The Anti-Circumcision Movement In San Francisco

</small>

|}

== [[CircWatch]] ==

* [http://circwatch.org/tag/brian-morris/ Posts about Brian Morris on CircWatch]

== Morris' circumcision expertise refuted ==

<youtube>id3M6gNju68</youtube>

==Summary==

  |url=https://www.racp.edu.au//docs/default-source/advocacy-library/circumcision-of-infant-males.pdf?sfvrsn=eaa32f1a_10

  |title=Circumcision of Infant Males

  |last=Paediatrics & Child Health Division

  |publisher=[[Royal Australasian College of Physicians]]

  |date=2010-09-01

== Biased [[publications]] ==

{{NOTE}} IntactiWiki does not recommend the publications indexed in this section.

  |issue=3

  |pages=e11-e12

  |pubmedID=21335254

  |DOI=10.1016/j.amepre.2010.12.005

}}</ref>

  |title=Male Circumcision: An Appraisal of Current Instrumentation

  |journal=InTech

  |pages=1-40

  |url=http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/male-circumcision-an-appraisal-of-current-instrumentation

  |accessdate=2011-09-17

}}</ref>

  |last=Ferguson

  |first=Cat

  |url=http://retractionwatch.com/2016/11/22/journal-editor-resigns-over-firestorm-from-circumcision-article/

  |title=Journal editor resigns over firestorm from circumcision article

* {{REFjournal

  |last=Morris

  |init=BJ

  |author-link=Brian J. Morris

  |last2=Krieger

  |init2=JN

  |author2-link=John N. Krieger

  |etal=no

  |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23937309/

  |journal=J Sex Med

  |date=2013-11

  |volume=10

* {{REFjournal

  |last=Morris

  |init=BJ

  |author-link=Brian J. Morris

  |last2=Krieger

  |init2=JN

  |author2-link=John N. Krieger

  |etal=no

  |title=Non-therapeutic male circumcision

  |journal=Paediatrics and Child Health  

  |location=

* {{REFjournal

  |last=Morris

  |init=BJ

  |author-link=Brian J. Morris

  |last2=Moreton

  |init2=S

  |author2-link=Stephen Moreton

  |last3=Krieger

  |init3=JN

  |author3-link=John N. Krieger

  |etal=no

  |title=Critical evaluation of arguments opposing male circumcision: A systematic review

  |journal=J Evid Based Med

  |date=2019-11

  |volume=12