1/15 #i2 Due to its many flaws, & as Dr Wolfram Hartmann has noted, #AAP’s 2012 Circumcision Policy - the work of Dr Andrew Freedman (among others) - has been found “by almost all other pediatric societies and associations worldwide as being scientifically untenable.”
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4/15
#i2 “Newborn circumcision on the web: An assessment of information quality and bias on the internet and social media.”#i2#AndrewFreedmanBiaspic.twitter.com/x50qbHJw6lShow this thread -
5/15
#i2 According to the abstract: “Each source was classified as either medical-based information or opinion/advocacy.” The implication that the 2 are mutually exclusive is false. Were it true, then#AAP#tweetiatricians could not be advocates for their patients.Show this thread -
6/15
#i2 The fact is, the more an objective person reviews the medical facts relating to non therapeutic neonatal#circumcision - w/out#bias - the more that person is appalled by the practice & motivated to end it.Show this thread -
7/15
#i2 Dr Freedman himself struggles w/cognitive dissonance & moral confusion in his own head, boasting to leading intactivist@GeorganneChapin that he’s probably “saved” more children from being circumcised than she has. Now THAT’S advocacy.Show this thread -
8/15
#i2 Such “saving” implies Dr Freedman must agree there are, at the very least, valid reasons why a male would NOT want to be circumcised - which in turn necessarily implies that there are valid reasons for a male to resent having a circumcision forced on him.Show this thread -
10/15 “OB/GYNs don’t circumcise” (
@markwwilsonmd), “boys aren’t circumcised w/out consent” (@janem1276). And my personal favorite: equating the foreskin w/a skin tag (@Dr_DoNoHarm) (winner of the award for most hypocritical twitter handle)#i2Show this thread -
11/15
#i2 For all his sneering at “advocacy,” it’s Dr Freedman, not intactivists, who has “scientifically untenable” views & avoids objective discussion of the anatomical facts relating to the foreskin & the (un)ethical nature of its amputation from a healthy child’s body.Show this thread -
12/15
#i2 It’s Dr Freedman who’s deathly afraid of having an open, fair & thorough debate of the medical & ethical arguments relating to non therapeutic neonatal circumcision b/c he knows full well it’s a debate he would badly lose.Show this thread -
14/15
#i2 Can’t wait to see if the presentation (or a video of it) is publicly posted so unbiased physicians & bioethicists can review & comment on it. I know it sounds naive, but my challenge to Dr Freedman is to not just imagine, but actively bring about a day…Show this thread -
15/15 When all doctors follow the cardinal principles of medical
#ethics & boys, just like girls, can be welcomed peacefully to a world in which their natural bodies are accorded the respect they deserve.#i2@AmerAcadPeds#tweetiatrician#putkids1st#ACOGShow this thread
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