RE: To circumcise or not to circumcise?
June 12, 2016 at 9:00 am
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2016 at 9:03 am by GrandizerII.)
(June 12, 2016 at 8:27 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:(June 11, 2016 at 8:05 pm)Losty Wrote: Studies that are peer reviewed. And done outside of America.
Still, even from your own link to the AAP earlier they say there's not enough benefit to do this routinely.
To be fair, studies done outside of America and on non-Americans are not considered to be generalizable to this population. I had not seen this AAP link before, and I don't think it's right to dismiss it just because we don't like what it says. If we, as skeptics, are not going to consider scientific research from a reputable, national medical organization, then we are no better than the crazy Christians who deny evolution research because the source has an "agenda."
Being normally a reputable national organization does not automatically mean that every study or review they conduct will not suffer major flaws.
As a skeptic, you shouldn't trust blindly what any one organization or scientist tells you. The best thing you can trust is the scientific method itself when done properly and replicated multiple times to the point that you can't but be confident of the findings.
Evolution is a theory, and a really good one at that. It's been tested so many times, and despite everything, still is the theory that we can trust to explain the variation of life on this planet.