re: Circumcision doubles risk for autism - link added MBD

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You feel like a piece of you is missing. We intact (physically and mentally) humans call that "insecurity".

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Me? Or are you using the "you" to mean men in general? The only thing I feel is missing right now is a legitimate thesis.

I appreciate that. I had already read it. It's wildly unconvincing at best.

Apparently having foreskin leads to an unhealthy preoccupation with foreskin.

I only have a sample size of one and correlation does not equal causation. But that's what I've gathered from this study.

Not even worth responding to the initial post.....right?

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What is unconvincing about looking at a population and seeing a difference? It's an observation. A fact.

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Your title is "circumcision doubles risk for autism" and is not supported by the study you linked. The statement "Higher rate of autism in circumcised vs uncircumcised males observed in Denmark" would have been an honest and factual title. Yours is not. What is unconvincing is the causal role that you claim given the study you present, specifically as the study mentions it can draw no firm conclusion from its results.

Here's another fact: babies who have ever been placed in a car seat are at much higher risk of being involved in a car crash than those who have never been placed in a car seat.


Relevance of facts is just as important as facts themselves.

Is traveling in a car necessary? Is circumcision?

Technically neither are necessary.

If you want to be normal in most parts of America, both are.

Yes. No.

The point is that there are benefits of traveling to balance the risks. What benefits are their to being circumcised....other than being accepted by genro as normal?

Cause.