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'''Circumcision study flaws''' are numerous. The medical literature relating to [[circumcision ]] is influenced by the authors' religious and cultural views.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://circumcision.org/cultural-and-medical-bias/
|title=Cultural and Medical Bias
=== Netherlands ===
The [https://www.knmg.nl Royal Dutch Medical Association] {KNMG) published a statement regarding the non-therapeutic [[circumcision ]] of male minors in 2010. The Netherlands is a nation where [[human rights]] are respected,<ref name="smith1998">{{REFweb
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/smith/
|title=Male Circumcision and the Rights of the Child
|date=1998
|accessdate=2020-02-04
}}</ref> so it should be no surprise that the statement emphasizes the protection of the [[human rights ]] of male minors and the reduction in the number of non-therapeutic circumcisions of children as much as possible. It finds no medical purpose for child non-therapeutic circumcision.
* {{REFweb
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/general/laumann/
|pubmedID=9091693
}}</ref> As a result, many Americans have never seen a human [[foreskin ]] and most are profoundly ignorant of its careanatomy, purposesfunctions, and functionscare.
With such an environment the medical industry has been able to develop its circumcision business into a colossus that exceeds an estimated $3 billion per year.<ref name="bollinger2012">{{REFweb
|accessdate=2020-08-03
|format=PDF
|quote=Some readers will be unaware that the AAP is not a dispassionate scientific research body , but rather a trade association for pediatricians. Those among its members and stakeholders who perform NTCs stand to profit from the procedure, to the collective annual tune of $1.25 billion according to one (albeit notimpartialnot impartial) estimate. Given the yawning potential for a financial conflict of interest, then, there needs to be a very strong, independent medical case for circumcision; and the AAP had better be able to show that it is both the safest and most cost effective means of promoting infant health. Both of these propositions fail,however, as I will continue to show in what follows.
}}
|accessdate=2020-08-03
}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Position statements on infant circumcision]]
{{REF}}