Zak Archive

Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)

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1	circumcision and speculative harm If you want to convince people not to have babies circumcised, suggesting that it is a cause of autism on such weak evidence is a mistake. It damages your credibility. Exposing the fact that the reasons circumcision became popular in the US are medically invalid, and reminding people of the blindingly obvious trauma of having one's sexual organs mutilated is a better approach. Of course, if you can find more rigorous evidence of a connection between circumcision and autism, the potential for cha…	/r/MensRights	23/02/09 06:11 AM
6	circumcision and speculative harm I'm a very strong opponent of circumcision, but this argument is not scientifically rigorous. There are many differences (food and drug supply chain immediately comes to mind, as does reporting methodology) between the US and France that might explain the difference. A more rigorous study would be autism rates in circumcised boys versus non-circumcised boys in the same country. I do not know if this study has been done.	/r/MensRights	22/02/09 02:29 PM