Great question: “how can we be an objective scientist and an advocate? #CUGH2018
I think us pediatricians are ok at this. Especially @AmerAcadPeds. Not perfect but we really try and be objective and advocate for child health.
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Replying to @jamee_walters @AmerAcadPeds
Actually awful at both objectivity & advocacy. How can a policy statement objectively address risk/benefit of amputation of a child's healthy body part w/out assessing its nature & functions? Shouldn't child advocates question the ethics of doing so?
#i2https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316527603_Cultural_bias_in_American_medicine_the_case_of_infant_male_circumcision …1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes -
"Not perfect" is an understatement with regards to the issue of patients having the opportunity to keep their genitals intact. On this particular issue "abysmal" would be a better word for
@AmerAcadPeds objectivity and advocacy.#i21 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
if the AAP's position on genital cutting were objective, it would not have received such unprecedented criticism from so many of the world's physicians. If it were meritorious,
#tweetiatricians@AAPPres would be defending it. Their silence is telling.#i2 http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/131/4/796 …1 reply 5 retweets 10 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @IntactByDefault and
I think that proves the point. The journal this was published in is from the AAP. They are open to other opinions.
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If AAP was open to other opinions, they would have included someone on their Circumcision Task Force who's opposed to non therapeutic circumcision of minors. No one on it fits that description; many are clearly pro.
Your non-response to my questions proves my point. #i2
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