User talk:French-Doctor

Circumcision
Jake has made his point in the edit summary, which I copy for you here: “rv. please review WP:RS. CIRP is not an encyclopaedic source.” The source you bring, cirp, is one with a disticnt bias and may well be unsuitable for an encyclopedia. If you were to research and post the actual papers, if possible, it may help. Nevertheless, CIRP's opinions are well known, and should not be stated in the guise of independant research, per se.

Further, a number of those studies that you have brought have been rendered obsolete. The "misleading" link you bring is dated 1998. There is a study in 2002, listed on the ACS site, that seems to repudiate that: New Study Shows Benefit of Male Circumcision and the MOST recent of documents of the ACS (revised 5/31/2006) says “In the United States, men who are circumcised in childhood have a lower rate of penile cancer. It’s not known whether this is due to the absence of the foreskin or other lifestyle factors. Recent studies have found that circumcised men are less likely to be infected with HPV, even after this risk is adjusted for differences in sexual behavior. Other studies suggest that circumcision may reduce the risk of more invasive forms of penile cancer.” What Are the Risk Factors for Penile Cancer?. There are other examples. So your data that you add, besides being the POLICY statements of CIRP as opposed to a neutral association, are also OUTDATED and OBSOLETE, if not REPUDIATED. I am reverting to the previous version, and we can carry out the discussion on the talk page of the article, and I am copying this text there as well. Thank you. -- Avi 01:36, 5 July 2006 (UTC)