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* 1997 [[Janice Lander]] discovers that '''circumcision without anesthesia is traumatic for babies'''.<br>(Note: Before this, almost all infant circumcisions were done without anesthetic due to the prevalent belief among circumcisers that babies are not capable of feeling significant pain and if they could it doesn't matter since they won't be able to remember it.)<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Lander |first=Janice |init=J |author-link=Janice Lander |title=Comparison of ring block, dorsal penile nerve block, and topical anesthesia for neonatal circumcision |journal=Journal of the American Medical Association |date=LanderJ etal 1997-12 |volume=274 |issue=24 |pages=2157-2162 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/lander/}}</ref>
* 1998 [[Howard J. Stang]], inventor of an upright circumcision restraint fails to mention this conflict of interest in his article promoting infant circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal
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