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==Myth-maker==
'''Thomas E. Wiswell''', {{MD}}, was a doctor at [https://tricare.mil/mtf/Walterreed Walter Reed Army Medical Center].<ref name=WiswellEtAl1993>{{REFjournal
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}}</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. Wiswell associates with the [[Gilgal Society]],<ref>{{REFbook
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