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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=ThomasE. |init=TE |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |last2=Hachey | coauthorsfirst2=Wayne Hachey | pubyearinit2=1993-03W | title=Urinary Tract Infections and the Uncircumcised State: An Update | journal=Clinical Pediatrics | volume=32 | issue=3 | pages=130-4134 | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000992289303200301 | quote= |pubmedID=8453827 |DOI=10.1177/000992289303200301 |date=1993-03 | accessdate = 20112020-04-2823}}</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 | id accessdate= PMID 8453827 2020-04-23}}</ref> and Orlando, {{USSC|FL}},<ref>{{doi REFweb | 10url=https://www.doctor.1177com/000992289303200301 }}Dr-Thomas-Wiswell |title=Dr. Thomas E Wiswell,MD |website=doctor.com |accessdate=2020-04-23}}</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 infection]]s.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wiswell |init=TE |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |last2=Smith |init2=FR |last3=Bass |init3=JW |title=Decreased incidence of urinary tract infections in circumcised male infants. |journal=Pediatrics |date=1983-05 |volume=75 |issue=5 |pages=901-903}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wiswell |init=TE |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |title=Circumcision and urinary tract infections |journal=Pediatrics |date=1986 |volume=77 |pages=267-268}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wiswell |init=TE |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |last2=Roscelli |init2=JD |title=Corroborative evidence for the decreased incidence of urinary tract infection in circumcised male infants |journal=Pediatrics |date=1986 |volume=78 |pages=96-99}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wiswell |init=TE |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |last2=Enzenauer |init2=RW |last3=Holton |init3=ME |last4=Cornish |init4=JD |last5=Hankins |init5=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 |date=1987 |volume=79 |pages=338-342}}</ref><ref name=WiswellEtAl1993/> All have long since been thoroughly discredited.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=AAP Task Force on Circumcision |title=Circumcision Policy Statement |journal=Pediatrics |date=1999 |volume=103 |issue=3 |pages=686-693}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Van Howe |init=RS |author-link=Robert Van Howe |title=Effect of confounding in the association between circumcision status and urinary tract infection |journal=J Infect |date=2005 |volume=51 |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.

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=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=]]

| 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 | pagespage=191 | location=London, England | publisher=The [[Gilgal Society | isbn= | note= | accessdate=]] | ID = EMS-EN 0304-2}}</ref><ref>{{REFbook |last=Price |first=Christopher P. |init=CP |author-link=Christopher P . Price. |chapter=Male Non-therapeutic circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues. In |title=Male and Female Circumcision, Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice ( |editors=[[George C. Denniston|Denniston GC]], [[Frederick M. Hodges|Hodges FM and ]], [[Marilyn Fayre Milos|Milos MF eds.) ]] |location=New York: |publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, |date=1999: |pages=425-454. 54 |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 Morris and others.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Morris |init=BJ |author-link=Brian J. Morris |last2=Bailis |init2=SA |author2-link=Stefan A. Bailis |last3=Waskett |init3=JH |author3-link=Jake H. Waskett |last4=Wiswell |init4=TE |author4-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |last5=Halperin |init5=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>

| 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=

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