  Circumcision in Germany  Incisive arguments  A row over a
ruling that circumcision for non-medical reasons is a crime  See
article  Readers' comments    m81 in reply to Hugh7  We seem to
be going in circles. Suffice it to say that the "evidence" you
provide is far from sufficient to put it kindly. Number one,
your informal poll about intact men is pretty useless. Public
health isn't based on polls. Number two, you make a number of
assumptions and leaps in logic based on very limited data. For
example, using the infection rates at a single location and
extrapolating that to the entire nation is HIGHLY UN-scientific
(have you ever heard of clusters?). Likewise the Brazilian
study. I'm not sure you understand the rigorous standards
science and medicine require,..but throwing out a bunch of
numbers on limited studies (I'm using that term liberally, they
probably don't even qualify as studies) is not making your case.
Its only further proving the need for more authentic and
objective studies.  About the 170, can