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| align="center" | '''Associates With:'''
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| align="center" | [[Gilgal Society]]
|- style="background: #DCDCDC"
| align="center" | '''Colleagues & Benefactors:'''
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| align="center" | [[Edgar J. Schoen]]<br>[[Brian J. Morris]]<br>[[Daniel T. Halperin]]<br>[[Jake H. Waskett]]
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'''Thomas E. Wiswell''' was a doctor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.<ref>{{REFjournal
| last=Wiswell
| first=Thomas
| coauthors=Wayne Hachey
| pubyear=1993-03
| title=Urinary Tract Infections and the Uncircumcised State: An Update
| journal=Clinical Pediatrics
| volume=32
| issue=3
| pages=130-4
| url=
| quote=
| accessdate = 2011-04-28
| id = PMID 8453827 {{doi | 10.1177/000992289303200301 }}
}}</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
| last=Morris
| first=Brian
| year=2007
| title=Sex and circumcision: What every woman needs to know
| url=http://www.circinfo.net/pdfs/GFW-EN%200712-1.pdf
| editor=Vernon Quaintance
| edition=
| volume=
| chapter=
| pages=
| location=London, England
| publisher=Gilgal Society
| isbn=
| note=
| accessdate=
}}</ref> a [[circumfetish]] group.<ref>{{REFbook
| last=Thomas
| first=A.
| year=2005
| title=Circumcision: An Ethomedical Study
| url=http://www.circleaks.org/images/d/d6/Gilgal_porn.pdf
| editor=Vernon Quaintance
| edition=
| volume=4
| chapter=Case histories and experiences of circumcision
| pages=191
| location=London, England
| publisher=The Gilgal Society
| isbn=
| note=
| accessdate=
| 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>
== Quotes ==
{{Citation
| 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.
| Author=Wiswell (1987-6-22)
| Source=The age-old question of circumcision. Boston Globe, p.43
| lang=
}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Gilgal Society]] -- Wiswell associates with Gilgal.
* [[Edgar J. Schoen]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Brian J. Morris]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Daniel T. Halperin]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Jake H. Waskett]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wiswell, Thomas E.}}
[[Category:People]]
[[Category:Researchers]]
[[Category:CircLeaks]]
[[Category:From IntactWiki]]
|-
| [[Image:Thomas_Wiswell.jpg|175px|alt=Example alt text]]
|- style="background: #DCDCDC"
| align="center" | '''Associates With:'''
|-
| align="center" | [[Gilgal Society]]
|- style="background: #DCDCDC"
| align="center" | '''Colleagues & Benefactors:'''
|-
| align="center" | [[Edgar J. Schoen]]<br>[[Brian J. Morris]]<br>[[Daniel T. Halperin]]<br>[[Jake H. Waskett]]
|-
|}
'''Thomas E. Wiswell''' was a doctor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.<ref>{{REFjournal
| last=Wiswell
| first=Thomas
| coauthors=Wayne Hachey
| pubyear=1993-03
| title=Urinary Tract Infections and the Uncircumcised State: An Update
| journal=Clinical Pediatrics
| volume=32
| issue=3
| pages=130-4
| url=
| quote=
| accessdate = 2011-04-28
| id = PMID 8453827 {{doi | 10.1177/000992289303200301 }}
}}</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
| last=Morris
| first=Brian
| year=2007
| title=Sex and circumcision: What every woman needs to know
| url=http://www.circinfo.net/pdfs/GFW-EN%200712-1.pdf
| editor=Vernon Quaintance
| edition=
| volume=
| chapter=
| pages=
| location=London, England
| publisher=Gilgal Society
| isbn=
| note=
| accessdate=
}}</ref> a [[circumfetish]] group.<ref>{{REFbook
| last=Thomas
| first=A.
| year=2005
| title=Circumcision: An Ethomedical Study
| url=http://www.circleaks.org/images/d/d6/Gilgal_porn.pdf
| editor=Vernon Quaintance
| edition=
| volume=4
| chapter=Case histories and experiences of circumcision
| pages=191
| location=London, England
| publisher=The Gilgal Society
| isbn=
| note=
| accessdate=
| 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>
== Quotes ==
{{Citation
| 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.
| Author=Wiswell (1987-6-22)
| Source=The age-old question of circumcision. Boston Globe, p.43
| lang=
}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Gilgal Society]] -- Wiswell associates with Gilgal.
* [[Edgar J. Schoen]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Brian J. Morris]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Daniel T. Halperin]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Jake H. Waskett]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wiswell, Thomas E.}}
[[Category:People]]
[[Category:Researchers]]
[[Category:CircLeaks]]
[[Category:From IntactWiki]]