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There is a huge bias in favor of non-therapeutic and therapeutic circumcision in the American medical literature.<ref name="fleiss1999">{{REFbook

|last=Fleiss

|year=1999

|title=An Analysis of Bias Regarding Circumcision in American Medical Literature

Although physicians may act with what they consider to be sound medical judgement, some Jewish physicians may be influenced also by non-medical consideration. Cultural background of many Jewish circumcision advocates predisposes them to view the practice in a positive light, to welcome evidence that the most particular and problematic religious custom of their people is medically beneficial, and to dismiss arguments to the contrary. The presence of a large and influential population of Jewish physicians in this country, their concentration in leading centers of research and publication, and their remarkably active participation in the century-long debate on circumcision seems too obvious and too significant to be rejected out of hand, or worse, to be avoided because it might be wrongly interpreted as gratuitous defamation.<ref>{{REFbook

|last=Glick

|author-link=Leonard B. Glick

|year=2005