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}}</ref> This may have contributed to his being appointed as chairman of the new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) task force on circumcision. (The AAP is a medical trade association which is noted for its [[bias]] in favor of non-therapeutic circumcision from which its members hugely [[Financial incentive| profit]].)
In 1987, Schoen was appointed head of the Task Force on Circumcision by the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]],<ref>''American Journal of Diseases in Children'', Vol 141: 128. February 1987</ref> where he pushed for "routine" (meaning without [[medical indication]]), non-therapeutic infant circumcision, but the neonatologists on Schoen's committee wouldn't go for it. According to Schoen, not performing circumcision would be "taking us back to nineteenth-century medicine on the eve of the 21st century," and that circumcision will prevent "dermatological problems".<ref name="Slack">{{REFjournal
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