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David A. Cooper

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Dr. '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is an Australian emergency physician<ref name=Collier2011>{{REFjournal
|last=Collier
|first=Roger
|init=R
|author-link=
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3225415/
|title=Circumcision indecision: The ongoing saga of the world’s most popular surgery
|journal=CMAJ
|date=2011-11-22
|volume=183
|issue=17
|pages=1961–2
|DOI=10.1503/cmaj.109-4021
|pubmedCID=PMC3225415
|pubmedID=22007124
}}</ref>. He is or was director of the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research at St Vincent's Hospital.<ref name=SMH2006>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/top-scientist-urges-circumcision-to-beat-aids-20060819-gdo7lm.html
|title=Top scientist urges circumcision to beat AIDS
|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald
|date=2006-08-19
|accessdate=2022-08-03
}}</ref>

== [[Circumfetish]] ==
Cooper and colleagues once referred to [[circumcision]] as a “surgical vaccine” and called for a boost in infant [[circumcision]] rates to reduce the transmission of [[HIV]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Cooper
|first=David A.
|init=DA
|author-link=David A. Cooper
|last2=Wodak
|first2=Alex D.
|init2=AD
|author2-link=Alex D. Wodak
|last3=Morris
|first3=Brian J.
|init3=BJ
|author3-link=Brian J. Morris
|title=The case for boosting infant male circumcision in the face of rising heterosexual transmission of HIV
|journal=Med J Aust
|volume=193
|issue=6
|pages=318-9
|url=https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2010/193/6/case-boosting-infant-male-circumcision-face-rising-heterosexual-transmission-hiv
|DOI=10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03940.x
|date=2010-09-20
|accessdate=2020-04-23
}}</ref> Cooper urged the Federal Government to consider the research and its implications locally and in neighbouring countries such as Papua New Guinea, which has a highly unstable HIV epidemic.<ref name=SMH2006/>

It seems as if Cooper really believed (or still believes?) that [[circumcision]] is a valuable protection against [[AIDS]] which has been proven wrong since then. But chances are that [[circumfetishist]] [[Brian J. Morris]] liked his idea and invited him to co-author some of his paper in favor of mandantory [[circumcision]] for all males.

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