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Originally Posted by LadyShea

Whoa, didn't see this coming at all. I assumed the opposite.

Pediatrics group says circumcision's benefits outweigh risks amid U.S. decline in procedure

Are you serious? Membership in that group is, I guess, the thing that's most strongly correlated with making money off the ritual. Hence the information content of their statement is close to zero. I would put them in the category of every other group that's about to lose an existing source of income and trying to prevent that. In terms of bias, that's where the most aggressive lobby groups are to be found.

[eta: never mind. That was probably sarcasm failure on my part.]