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'''Thomas E. Wiswell''' , {{MD}}, was a doctor at [https://tricare.mil/mtf/Walterreed Walter Reed Army Medical Center].<refname=WiswellEtAl1993>{{REFjournal
|last=Wiswell
|first=Thomas E.
|init=TE
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|last2=Hachey
|first2=Wayne
|last2init2=Hachey |date=1993-03W
|title=Urinary Tract Infections and the Uncircumcised State: An Update
|journal=Clinical Pediatrics
|issue=3
|pages=130-134
|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000992289303200301
|quote=
|pubmedID=8453827
|DOI=10.1177/000992289303200301
|date=1993-03 |accessdate=2020-04-23}}</ref> He practices as neonatologist (Pediatrician who cares for and treats newborns in particular) among others in Honolulu, {{USSC|HI}},<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://health.usnews.com/doctors/thomas-wiswell-404405 |title=Dr. Thomas E. Wiswell,MD |website=US News |accessdate=2020-04-23}}</ref> and Orlando, {{USSC|FL}},<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.doctor.com/Dr-Thomas-Wiswell |title=Dr. Thomas E Wiswell,MD |website=doctor.com |accessdate=20112020-04-2823}}</ref> USA. Wiswell is a common Jewish surname ([[bias|Why is this important?]]). Wiswell is generally believed to be a [[Circumcised doctors| circumcised doctor]].==Myth-maker==Starting in 1983, he began to produce a series of egregiously flawed studies that falsely claimed [[circumcision ]] reduced the incidence of [[urinary tract infectionsinfection]]s.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wiswell
|firstinit=T.E.TE
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|last2=Smith
|first2init2=F.R.FR
|last3=Bass
|first3init3=J.W.JW
|title=Decreased incidence of urinary tract infections in circumcised male infants.
|journal=Pediatrics
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wiswell
|firstinit=T.E.TE
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|title=Circumcision and urinary tract infections
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wiswell
|firstinit=T.E.TE
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|last2=Roscelli
|first2init2=J.D.JD
|title=Corroborative evidence for the decreased incidence of urinary tract infection in circumcised male infants
|journal=Pediatrics
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wiswell
|firstinit=T.E.TE
|author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|last2=Enzenauer
|first2init2=R.W.RW
|last3=Holton
|first3init3=M.E.ME
|last4=Cornish
|first4init4=J.D.JD
|last5=Hankins
|first5init5=C.T.CT
|title=Declining frequency of circumcision: implications for changes in the absolute incidence and male to female sex ratio of urinary tract infections in early infancy
|journal=Pediatrics
|volume=79
|pages=338-342
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |lastname=Wiswell |first=T.E. |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |last2=Hachey |first2=W.E. |title=Urinary tract infections and the uncircumcised state: an update |journal=Clin Pediatr |location=Phila |date=1993 |volume=32 |pages=130-134}}<WiswellEtAl1993/ref> All have long since been thoroughly discredited.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=AAP Task Force on Circumcision
|title=Circumcision Policy Statement
}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Van Howe
|firstinit=R.S.RS
|author-link=Robert Van Howe
|title=Effect of confounding in the association between circumcision status and urinary tract infection
|issue=1
|pages=59-68
}}</ref> Wiswell's retroactive "studies" had serious methodological flaws, however circumcision advocate [[Edgar J. Schoen]] chose to cite these studies in the 1989 AAP Circumcision Policy statement. This started the myth that infant circumcision can prevent urinary tract infection. Wiswell associates with the [[Gilgal Society]],<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Morris
|first=BrianJ. |init=BJ
|author-link=Brian J. Morris
|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 G. Quaintance |edition= |volume= |chapter= |pages=]]
|location=London, England
|publisher=[[Gilgal Society |isbn= |note= |accessdate=]]
}}</ref> a [[circumfetish]] group.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Thomas
|first=A.
|init=A
|year=2005
|title=Circumcision: An Ethomedical Study
|url=http://www.circleaks.org/images/d/d6/Gilgal_porn.pdf
|editor=[[Vernon G. Quaintance |edition=]]
|volume=4
|chapter=Case histories and experiences of circumcision
|page=191
|location=London, England
|publisher=The [[Gilgal Society |isbn= |note= |accessdate=]]
|ID=EMS-EN 0304-2
}}</ref><ref>{{REFbook
|last=Price
|first=Christopher P.
|lastinit=CP |author-link=Christopher P. Price
|chapter=Male Non-therapeutic circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues
|title=Male and Female Circumcision, Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice
|editoreditors=Denniston G.[[George C.Denniston|Denniston GC]], Hodges F.[[Frederick M. and Hodges|Hodges FM]], [[Marilyn Fayre Milos|Milos M.F.MF]]
|location=New York
|publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
|date=1999
|pages=425-45454
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/price2/
}}</ref>
Wiswell has allied himself with [[Brian J. Morris]] and other circumcision advocates since 2009. He co-authors articles with Brian Morris and others.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Morris
|firstinit=BJ |author-link=Brian J. Morris
|last2=Bailis
|first2init2=SA |author2-link=Stefan A. Bailis
|last3=Waskett
|first3init3=JH |author3-link=Jake H. Waskett
|last4=Wiswell
|first4init4=TE |author4-link=Thomas E. Wiswell
|last5=Halperin
|first5init5=DT |author5-link=Daniel T. Halperin
|etal=no
|title=Medicaid coverage of newborn circumcision: a health parity right of the poor
|journal=Am J Public Health
|date=2009-06
|volume=99
|issue=6
|pages=969-971
|pubmedID=19372502
|DOI=10.2105/AJPH.2009.161281
|accessdate=2019-10-22}}</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
}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]
* [[Bias]]
* [[Circumcised doctors]]
* [[Gilgal Society]] -- Wiswell associates with Gilgal.
* [[Brian J. Morris]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Daniel T. Halperin]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Edgar J. Schoen]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
* [[Jake H. Waskett]] -- Colleague & Benefactor of Wiswell.
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