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[[File:GeraldWeiss.jpg|thumb|{{Construction SiteFULLPAGENAME}}]]The late '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', M.D.{{MD}}, ({{LifeData|1923-06-14|2021-12-20}}), was a Jewish medical doctor and advocate of male [[circumcision]].

 Gerald Weiss was born in New Orleans, Louisiana ot {{USSC|LA}}, on 14 June 1923 and was most likely [[Brit Milah| circumcised]] on the eighth dayin accordance with the [[Abrahamic covenant]].He graduated [https://medicine.tulane.edu/ Tulane Medical School] in 1945. 

Weiss's military career took him to Washington, {{USSC|DC}}, where he met and married Elaine Judith Bressler in 1948. They had three children.The Weiss family were strong believers in [[Judaism]]. The Weisses moved to northern Colorado after his retirement where he helped to start [https://templeorhadash.org/ Temple Or Hadash].<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://templeorhadash.org/our-history/ |title=Our History |publisher=Temple Or Hadash |date= |accessdate=2022-10-31}}</ref> Weiss died in northern Colorado on 20 December 2021 at the age of 98 years. 

Weiss joined the United States Army as an aviation medical officer in 1945. Later he practiced medicine for about 25 years as a general surgeon in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Later he joined the [https://www.airforce.com/ United States Air Force] as a Flight Surgeon with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. As with many other [[circumcised doctors]], Weiss was an advocate of child [[circumcision]]. Weiss et al. (1993) speculated that the [[Langerhans cells]] in the [[prepuce]] may serve as a portal-of-entry for [[HIV]] infection.<ref name="weiss1993">{{REFjournal |last=Weiss |first=Gerald N. |init=GN |author-link=Gerald N. Weiss |last2=Sanders |first2= |init2=M |author2-link= |last3=Westbrook |first3= |init3=KC |author3-link= |etal=no |title=The distribution and density of Langerhans cells in the human prepuce: site of a diminished immune response? |journal= Isr J Med Sci |location= |date=1993-01 |volume=20 |issue=1 |article= |page= |pages=42-3 |url= |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=8454447 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2022-10-28}}</ref> Unfortunately, Weiss's false claims published in an Israeli medical journal served to buttress the equally false claims of [[Aaron J. Fink]] and give them an appearance of credibility they did not deserve and set the foundation for the three African randomized controlled trials that erroneously and falsely promoted male circumcision as a preventative for HIV infection,<ref name="boyle2011">{{BoyleGJ HillG 2011}}</ref> and eventually lead to [[PEPFAR]].

|init=GMGN |author-link=Gerald N. Weiss |last2=Sanders |first2= |init2=M |author2-link= |last3=Westbrook |first3= |init3=KC |author3-link= |etal=no |title=The distribution and density of Langerhans cells in the human prepuce: site of a diminished immune response? |journal= Isr J Med Sci |location= |date=1993-01 |volume=20 |issue=1 |article= |page= |pages=42-3 |url= |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=8454447 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2022-10-28}}* {{REFjournal |last=Weiss |first=Gerald N. |init=GN

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