Daniel T. Halperin

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Associates With:

Circlist Gilgal Society

Colleagues & Benefactors:

Robert C. Bailey Edgar J. Schoen Brian J. Morris Thomas E. Wiswell Jake H. Waskett

Daniel Halperin has published several papers on circumcision for HIV prevention, which are being used by the World Health Organization to endorse circumcision as an HIV prevention method. In November 1999, colleagues Daniel Halperin and Robert C. Bailey published an article in the Lancet criticizing the public-health community for not pushing circumcision. Today, Halperin is the Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard AIDS Prevention Research Project.

Halperin is a member of Circlist, and a proud promoter of the group. Halperin's home office is only a stone's throw from the office of Edgar J. Schoen (leading pro-circumcision advocate).

Religious & Cultural Bias

- His grandthather was a Mohel, born in Russia, died in Chicago. "I don't have an agenda about foreskins" said Halperin in an interview for the Eastbay Express. When asked if being Jewish affects his pro-circumcision bias, he denied it, but said that his Judaism has "crept in now and then". He explains, "think of it as maybe a kind of health/cultural innovation ahead of it's time. So it's made me appreciate my own heritage more. And who knows, maybe finding out to my surprise that my own granddad was a Mohel was a weird kind of confirmation that I'm maybe in some small way 'destined' to help pass along this health benefit to people in parts of the world where it could really make a difference and perhaps save many lives."

Halperin Cites Vernon Quaintance, Brian Morris and Circlist

In an interview, Daniel Halperin cites Vernon Quaintance, Brian Morris and Circlist as credible resources in favor of circumcision. It is important to note that Quaintance and Morris are both proud members and promoters of Gilgal Society and Circlist, which openly admit to a morbid fascination with circumcision to the point of sado-masochistic fetish. Morris has included CircList as a resource in a recent paper, and Quaintance is both the head of Gilgal Society, and head moderator at Circlist. Vernon Quaintance was recently arrested for child pornography.

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Moyels Without Borders

On May 28th 2010, at the UNC School of Medicine, Halperin lectured on "Moyels without Borders?: Barriers to Scale-up of Circumcision"

Promoting Circumcision in Africa

Halperin and Bailey convinced eastern and south African "healers" to perform foreskin removal "as a way to alleviate chronic STD infection and prevent AIDS" in the 1990's. During the nineties alone, they convinced hundreds of South African men that circumcision would prevent HIV.

HIV/AIDS

Daniel Halperin has said he believes circumcision will go further than any other intervention available in stopping the HIV, and that circumcision will prevent HIV among homosexual men.

Quotes

. Halperin was asked by Gordy Slack of the East Bay Express if his being Jewish factored into his work on circumcision. Halperin replied:

Other quotes...

See Also

• Circlist -- Halperin endorses Circlist.
• Gilgal Society -- Halperin helped create a Gilgal brochure.
• Robert C. Bailey -- Colleague & Benefactor of Halperin.
• Edgar J. Schoen -- Colleague & Benefactor of Halperin.
• Brian J. Morris -- Colleague & Benefactor of Halperin.
• Thomas E. Wiswell -- Colleague & Benefactor of Halperin.
• Jake H. Waskett -- Benefactor of Halperin.
• World Health Organization -- The WHO endorses Halperin's research.
• Bias -- Read about circumcision bias.

External Links

• Halperin links to Circlist -- Endorsing Circlist and Vernon Quaintance's website.