Andrew Gross Published May 15, 2018 Updated February 8, 2023 How a bizarre study exposes the intellectual laziness of circumcision scholars “You have to know how to read a scientific paper—and actually bother to do it.” [1] In 2002 Donald R Taves, a psychiatrist at the University of Washington, conducted an experiment to measure the effect of foreskin on the force necessary for vaginal penetration. He reported his experiment in a medical journal. [2] The study provides a