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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 | '''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?]]). | }}</ref> USA. Wiswell is a common Jewish surname ([[bias|Why is this important?]]). Wiswell is generally believed to be a [[Circumcised doctors| circumcised doctor]]. | ||
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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 | 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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[[Category:Researcher]] | [[Category:Researcher]] | ||
[[Category:Promoter]] | [[Category:Promoter]] | ||
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