

HHS Secretary cites debunked autism study
October 10, 2025 Yesterday Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, cited a study that was previously...


Clopper sues Oregon to force states to ban circumcision
March 31, 2025 Last week Attorney Eric Clopper filed a lawsuit against the state of Oregon based on a law prohibiting female genital...


New Hampshire legislation would severely restrict circumcision
Published: January 7, 2024 Updated: April 2, 2024 Two bills currently being considered in the New Hampshire legislature would place...


Supreme Court rejects Clopper v Harvard appeal
Andrew Gross October 2, 2023 On May 1, 2018 Eric Clopper, a Harvard University employee, performed his one-man production, "Sex &...


An angry man confronted his mother. Did it help?
Andrew Gross Published: June 1, 2023 Updated: July 16, 2023 "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!" - William Shakespeare How should a parent respond when her teenage or adult son confronts her, saying that he resents his infant circumcision? In The Joy of Uncircumcising therapist Jim Bigelow advised, "apologies and explanations both to ourselves and our son go a long way toward restoring cognitive harmony ... Such honesty can be very healing fo


Poisoned pi
Published: March 14, 2023 Updated: April 5, 2023 Today is colloquially known as Pi Day, since the 3/14 date resembles the first three...


The ethics of circumcision, Part 2
Andrew Gross Published: March 12, 2023 Updated: June 19, 2025 The ethics of circumcision, Part 1 I encourage visitors to read The Ethics...


The ethics of circumcision
Andrew Gross March 12, 2023 INTRODUCTION In November 2022 Brian Earp's paper, The Ethics of Circumcision, was published as a chapter in a...


Did California resume Medicaid coverage for circumcision?
Published: December 22, 2022 Updated: March 30, 2023 California Health & Wellness (CHS), a health insurance plan serving recipients of...


Court rejects Medicaid lawsuit: Adler and Goldman respond
November 8, 2022 As we reported last month , on October 13 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rejected an appeal to consider...











































