8/11 As Earp & Frisch point out (p 18), 1 task force member essentially admitted this in a 2016 editorial (attached here) https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2016/04/04/peds.2016-0594.full.pdf … There was never any chance the AAP task force was ever going to say anything negative about #circumcision, as that would be...
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Replying to @cooney21 @iamdrugfreedave and
9/11 inconsistent with "protecting this option." So the task force didn't seriously discuss
#bioethics & didn't discuss AT ALL the anatomy of the foreskin b/c to do so honestly would be to demonstrate it to be a functional & valued body part. So clearly, the question you ought to2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @dkingpower7 and
Interesting thing is I'm heavily culturally biased towards circumcision. But ive done the research bc I care about truth. I'm ok discovering I'm wrong and I'm ok with sacrificing my own selfish hopes. Bedside of the extreme anti-circ position who are - -
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Replying to @iamdrugfreedave @cooney21 and
literally obsessed with the topic, and obsessed with the idea that I'm a victim and that my body is mutilated.. It's impossible to have a rational debate. This isn't the way to change minds.. You believe your position 100% which rational people do not do.
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Replying to @iamdrugfreedave @cooney21 and
I really agree. It's a sensitive subject with tons of evidence and beliefs on both sides, but the toxicity of the online drbates really kill it
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Replying to @meninism666 @cooney21 and
Couldn't have said it better. I learned the hard way topic to steer clear from on Twitter
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Replying to @iamdrugfreedave @meninism666 and
Awareness of your own cultural bias is step 1. Step 2 is seeing past it - hopefully you'll get there. If you'd "done research" or "care[d] about the truth," you wouldn't have characterized the AAP's view of child
#circumcision as "consensus." What's impossible is a rational...1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @iamdrugfreedave and
...debate w/someone who stubbornly refuses to accept (or even read) what the int'l medical consensus is, even when the evidence of that is spelled out for him in detail. That the int'l medical consensus is that the harms & risks of infant
#circumcision far outweigh its supposed1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @iamdrugfreedave and
...benefits is a fact. It's not a debatable point. It's like saying the int'l consensus is that the world is round, not flat. Rational people believe facts like that 100%, especially when the evidence for it is gift-wrapped for them. Irrational people cling to beliefs that...
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Replying to @cooney21 @iamdrugfreedave and
...make themselves feel better about themselves, like "foreskin must be bad b/c I can't remember having one," regardless of the objective lack of support for such views. Next time, save yourselves some trouble & just say up front you can't accept the fact that the weight of int'l
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medical opinion is with the vast majority of the world's people who recognize child #circumcision is unnecessary, unhelpful, inherently harmful & a violation of a child's most basic right to bodily integrity. Then take your place with the flat-earthers. #i2
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