October 12, 2022 On Tuesday Intact America posted a tweet that began with a warning: "Don't be misled." Ironically the entire tweet is misleading. Intact American committed two cherry-picking fallacies and used a butchered, outdated quote. Intact America stated, "No medical society recommends routine #circumcision, including the #AmerAcadPeds. Keep baby boys intact." This statement is a misleading cherry-picking of the American Academy of Pediatrics's actual position. The AAP

October 8, 2022 Attorney Peter Adler represented the plaintiffs in a recent Massachusetts lawsuit involving Medicaid coverage for circumcision. A former advisor to an anti-circumcision legal group and author of Circumcision is a Fraud and the Coming Legal Reckoning, he has argued for years that elective circumcision of minor boys is illegal under existing laws. [1] The Antisemitism in Intactivism Facebook page recently posted screenshots of two comments that Adler wrote seven

Andrew Gross July 27, 2022 We first reported about Ulf Dunkel and his IntactiWiki website two years ago. We described the articles on the Wikipedia-style website as "false, misleading, incomplete, trivial, extremely biased, or otherwise deficient." Dunkel, a salesman in Germany, made no attempt to respond to our accusations. Instead he merely claimed that our article 'proves that [Circumcision Choice] are bulling intactivists." Then last year I reported that Dunkel had create

December 11, 2021 In 1907 Mark Twain famously wrote, "Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to [British Prime Minister Benjamin] Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'" [1] Disraeli may have been referring to the misuse of statistical data to trick others, a fallacious tactic often used to boost a weak argument. Let’s e

September 4, 2021 Last month Your Whole Baby published a post with questions for parents considering circumcision. YWB implied that a parent who cannot answer these questions lacks sufficient knowledge to give informed consent for her son's circumcision. The problems generated by the YWB questions are the same problems with a series of questions posted on the Saving Our Sons website in 2014. Our analysis of the SOS questions applies equally here. The list is nothing more than

Andrew Gross Published: July 10, 2021 Updated: January 5, 2022 NOTE: Since this article was posted, Ulf Dunkel has revised his article about me several times - clearly in response to this and other Circumcision Choice articles. Nowhere in his article does he indicate an edit, update, or revision. Consequently he has removed some of his earlier false statements (e.g. that I am "obviously the only contributor to the Circumcision Choice blog"), which no longer appear in his arti

Published September 12, 2020 Revised October 4, 2021 Intactivists say that a circumcised man doesn't know what he's missing. [1] That's true - to some extent. A happily circumcised man doesn't know that he's missing phimosis and smegma. He doesn't know that circumcision reduced his risk of urinary tract infection during infancy by 90%. He doesn't realize that circumcision during infancy lowered his risk of penile cancer by up to 99%. He isn't aware that he spends less time c

December 4, 2019 Updated January 3, 2020 Dear Brendon, I caught the tail end of the 51-minute Facebook livestream video that you recorded on Tuesday evening. The section of interest to me runs from 42:44 to 48:22. You repeatedly said that it's very interesting that the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical organizations and individual physicians have not issued any criticism or rebuttal of your anti-circumcision documentary. You called it a "tell". One part that pi

Published: November 29, 2018 Revised: August 1, 2022 Anti-circumcision activists often claim that just 1 out of 16,667 men (0.006%) will require a circumcision for medical reasons. This is one of the most cited intactivist statistics, up there with the 16 functions, 117 deaths, and 20,000 nerve endings. It was even cited by the president of Doctors Opposing Circumcision in a 1996 medical journal. [1] This post will answer the questions: What is the source for this statistic?