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}}</ref> Wiswell is a common Jewish surname ([[bias|Why is this important?]]).
}}</ref> Wiswell is a common Jewish surname ([[bias|Why is this important?]]).


Starting in 1983, he began to produce a series of egregiously flawed studies that claimed circumcision reduced the incidence of urinary tract infections.<ref>Wiswell TE, Smith FR, Bass JW. Decreased incidence of urinary tract infections in circumcised male infants. Pediatrics 1983 may;75(5):901-3</ref><ref>Wiswell TE. Circumcision and urinary tract infections. Pediatrics 1986; 77: 267-8.</ref><ref>Wiswell TE, Roscelli JD. Corroborative evidence for the decreased incidence of urinary tract infection in circumcised male infants. Pediatrics 1986;78:96-99.</ref><ref>Wiswell TE, Enzenauer RW, Holton ME, Cornish JD, Hankins CT. Declining frequency of circumcision: implications for changes in the absolute incidence and male to female sex ratio of urinary tract infections in early infancy. Pediatrics 1987; 79: 338-42.</ref><ref>Wiswell TE, Hachey WE. Urinary tract infections and the uncircumcised state: an update. Clin Pediatr (Phila) 1993; 32: 130-4.</ref> All have long since been thoroughly discredited.<ref>AAP Task Force on Circumcision. Circumcision Policy Statement. Pediatrics 1999;103(3):686-693.</ref><ref>Van Howe RS. Effect of confounding in the association between circumcision status and urinary tract infection. J Infect 2005;51(1):59-68.</ref> Wiswell associates with the [[Gilgal Society]],<ref>{{REFbook
Starting in 1983, he began to produce a series of egregiously flawed studies that claimed circumcision reduced the incidence of urinary tract infections.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wiswell
|first=T.E.
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|last2=Smith
|first2=F.R.
|last3=Bass
|first3=J.W.
|title=Decreased incidence of urinary tract infections in circumcised male infants.
|journal=Pediatrics
|date=May 1983
|volume=75
|issue=5
|pages=901-903
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wiswell
|first=T.E.
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|title=Circumcision and urinary tract infections
|journal=Pediatrics
|date=1986
|volume=77
|pages=267-268
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wiswell
|first=T.E.
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|last2=Roscelli
|first2=J.D.
|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
|first=T.E.
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|last2=Enzenauer
|first2=R.W.
|last3=Holton
|first3=M.E.
|last4=Cornish
|first4=J.D.
|last5=Hankins
|first5=C.T.
|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=338-342
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wiswell
|first=T.E.
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|last2=Hachey
|first2=W.E.
|title=Urinary tract infections and the uncircumcised state: an update
|journal=Clin Pediatr
|location=Phila
|date=1993
|volume=32
|pages=130-134
}}</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
|first=R.S.
|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 associates with the [[Gilgal Society]],<ref>{{REFbook
  |last=Morris
  |last=Morris
  |first=Brian
  |first=Brian
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  | ID = EMS-EN 0304-2
  | ID = EMS-EN 0304-2
}}</ref><ref>Christopher P Price. Male Non-therapeutic circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues. In Male and Female Circumcision, Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice (Denniston GC, Hodges FM and Milos MF eds.) New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999: 425-454. http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/price2/</ref>
}}</ref><ref>{{REFbook
|first=Christopher P.
|last=Price
|chapter=Male Non-therapeutic circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues
|title=Male and Female Circumcision, Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice
|editor=Denniston G.C., Hodges F.M. and Milos M.F.
|location=New York
|publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
|date=1999
|pages=425-454
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/price2/
}}</ref>


== Quotes ==
== Quotes ==
{{Citation
{{Citation
| Title=Easy Money
|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.
|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)
|Author=Wiswell (1987-6-22)
| Source=The age-old question of circumcision. Boston Globe, p.43
|Source=The age-old question of circumcision. Boston Globe, p.43
| lang=
}}
}}


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