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=== Popularizing the hypothesis ===
Fink's proposal appeared in media throughout the US and Canada. Asked about his idea by a United Press reporter, Fink replied "This is nothing I can prove."<refname="Glick2005Prove">{{REFbook
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According to Fink, if his book were to "provide the knowledge and insight that might save even one life from the tragedy of AIDS the effort was worthwhile." Since one of the book's seven chapters was entitled "Preventing AIDS: Another Benefit of Newborn Circumcision," the average reader might have concluded that this was fact and not superstition.<ref>{{REFbook |lastname=Glick |first=Leonard |author-link=Leonard B. Glick |year=2005 |title=[[Marked in Your Flesh]] |url= |editor= |edition= |volume= |chapter=<q>This Little Operation</q>, Jewish American Physicians and Twentieth-Century Circumcisoin Advocacy |pages=206-208 |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-517674-X |quote= This is nothing I can prove. |note= |accessdate=2011-02-19}}<"Glick2005Prove"/ref>
== Fink's appeal to medical associations ==