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== Research the NEJM has overlooked ==
Circumcision is losing popularity in the United States and has been discredited by the [https://www.cps.ca/ Canadian Pediatric Society]<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Fetus and Newborn Committee, Canadian Paediatric Society
|title=Neonatal circumcision revisited
|volume=77
|pages=291-295
}}</ref> Taddio ''et al''. showed that circumcision with and without local anesthesia (EMLA) resulted in negative behavioral changes in a child's response to [[pain]].<ref name=Taddio1997>{{REFjournal
|last=Taddio
|first=A.
|volume=336
|pages=1197-1201
}}</ref> When the limitations of this form of local anesthesia was brought to the attention of the editors, they failed to print the criticism (see Abstracts & Analysis). They failed to point out that this form of local anesthesia (EMLA) did not prevent the long term negative behavioral response to [[pain ]] previously reported in the ''Lancet''.<ref name=Taddio1997/> The lack of effects of EMLA on long term negative behavioral changes caused by circumcision was printed in British medical journals.<ref name=Taddio1997/><ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Taddio
|first=A.