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Starting in 1983, he began to produce a series of egregiously flawed studies that claimed circumcision reduced the incidence of urinary tract infections.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wiswell TE, |first=T.E. |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |last2=Smith FR, |first2=F.R. |last3=Bass JW |first3=J.W. |title=Decreased incidence of urinary tract infections in circumcised male infants. |journal=Pediatrics |date=May 1983 may; |volume=75( |issue=5): |pages=901-3903}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wiswell TE |first=T.E. |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell |title=Circumcision and urinary tract infections. |journal=Pediatrics |date=1986; |volume=77: |pages=267-8.268}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wiswell |first=T.E. |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell TE, |last2=Roscelli JD |first2=J.D. |title=Corroborative evidence for the decreased incidence of urinary tract infection in circumcised male infants. |journal=Pediatrics |date=1986; |volume=78: |pages=96-99.}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wiswell |first=T.E. |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell TE, |last2=Enzenauer RW, |first2=R.W. |last3=Holton ME, |first3=M.E. |last4=Cornish JD, |first4=J.D. |last5=Hankins CT |first5=C.T. |title=Declining frequency of circumcision: implications for changes in the absolute incidence and male to female sex ratio of urinary tract infections in early infancy. |journal=Pediatrics |date=1987; |volume=79: |pages=338-42.342}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Wiswell |first=T.E. |author-link=Thomas E. Wiswell TE, |last2=Hachey WE |first2=W.E. |title=Urinary tract infections and the uncircumcised state: an update. |journal=Clin Pediatr ( |location=Phila) |date=1993; |volume=32: |pages=130-4.134}}</ref> All have long since been thoroughly discredited.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=AAP Task Force on Circumcision. |title=Circumcision Policy Statement. |journal=Pediatrics |date=1999; |volume=103( |issue=3): |pages=686-693.}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal |last=Van Howe RS |first=R.S. |author-link=Robert Van Howe |title=Effect of confounding in the association between circumcision status and urinary tract infection. |journal=J Infect |date=2005; |volume=51( |issue=1): |pages=59-68.}}</ref> Wiswell associates with the [[Gilgal Society]],<ref>{{REFbook

}}</ref><ref>{{REFbook |first=Christopher P . |last=Price. |chapter=Male Non-therapeutic circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues. In |title=Male and Female Circumcision, Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice ( |editor=Denniston GCG.C., Hodges FM F.M. and Milos MF edsM.) F. |location=New York: |publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, |date=1999: |pages=425-454. |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/price2/}}</ref>

| Title=Easy Money | Text=I have some good friends who are obstetricians outside the military, and they look at a foreskin and almost see a $125 price tag on it. Each one is that much money. Heck, if you do 10 a week, that's over $1,000 a week, and they don't take that much time. | Author=Wiswell (1987-6-22) | Source=The age-old question of circumcision. Boston Globe, p.43| lang=