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Chemisse

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36. I don't think they gave the babies any pain medicine in those days.

Sat Mar 28, 2015, 04:18 PM

Mar 2015

Especially since they claimed that babies didn't feel pain like we do. And if they had, it would have been aspirin, which is not used now in children.

Autism rates were low then (although it had barely been recognized back then, and many children were probably diagnosed with other disorders or not diagnosed at all in those days).

I'm certainly not buying into this link (between circumcision and autism). Studies correlating things to autism are all over the place. But at least the pain medicine suggestion makes some sense.

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Study links autism with circumcision [View all] Jesus Malverde Mar 2015 OP

yikes olddots Mar 2015 #1

It will be like "King Kong v Godzilla" AngryAmish Mar 2015 #38

"Causality remains unproven." Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #2

Yes. elleng Mar 2015 #4

This, will likely be a very long contentious thread. I'm stocking up on RKP5637 Mar 2015 #3

This thread needs more Olive Garden. n/t lumberjack_jeff Mar 2015 #8

+1, n/t RKP5637 Mar 2015 #22

And a pit bull. hifiguy Mar 2015 #23

Go back to the store jmowreader Mar 2015 #20

That sounds like mistaking correlation for causation Spider Jerusalem Mar 2015 #5

Great observation...nt Jesus Malverde Mar 2015 #6

It could be due to a shared environmental cause. Maybe Lamb causes Autism? n/t lumberjack_jeff Mar 2015 #12

It's also a question of the over-design of sensitivity... sample size of 340,000??? HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #26

Interesting study, in terms of circumcison being a trauma inducing event Zorra Mar 2015 #7

Riiiight. Because there are so many autistic Jews and Arabs. Throughout history. Hekate Mar 2015 #9

What? uppityperson Mar 2015 #17

In both of these Abrahamic religions, male circumcision is a religious requirement.... Hekate Mar 2015 #25

Thank you, I understand all that, was wondering about the autism crack. uppityperson Mar 2015 #28

I was bein really, really sarcastic about the "study." nt Hekate Mar 2015 #29

Thank you, that is what I thought but am trying to clarify vs assume. nt uppityperson Mar 2015 #32

There's a place that I could go with this, but... AnnieBW Mar 2015 #10

all we need now is moon bombing, chicken, Olive Garden, pit bulls and breast-feeding.... steve2470 Mar 2015 #11

Nothing will ever, hifiguy Mar 2015 #24

Chemtrails! Don't forget those. nt LiberalEsto Mar 2015 #35

I call BS on their study. Quackers Mar 2015 #13

As a hypothetical, much better diagnostic evaluations... Fumesucker Mar 2015 #15

Correlation does not equal causation. Eating pickles before conception is linked with autism too uppityperson Mar 2015 #14

Study links autism with studies... MrScorpio Mar 2015 #16

bingo! LiberalEsto Mar 2015 #37

In the comments there was a link to another study oregonjen Mar 2015 #18

That is interesting. Chemisse Mar 2015 #34

Now that sounds very reasonable. Most baby boys were circumcized before they were two weeks jwirr Mar 2015 #41

No medication is used. dgibby Mar 2015 #44

They were giving local lidocaine in that time period. But I hadn't heard about Tylenol pnwmom Mar 2015 #45

Don't they teach simple stats to researchers? Igel Mar 2015 #43

I think this depends on eating at the Olive Garden in Manhattan, before having one. madinmaryland Mar 2015 #19

Well...whatever... Laffy Kat Mar 2015 #21

I knew a church that on the Feast of the Circumcision sang the hymn. .. hrmjustin Mar 2015 #27

makes sense always told men think with their dicks dembotoz Mar 2015 #30

It was not all that long ago when every boy child in the USA was circumsized. I wonder what the jwirr Mar 2015 #31

I don't think they gave the babies any pain medicine in those days. Chemisse Mar 2015 #36

I was about 10 years old and in the hospital for surgery. One day I heard this poor child screaming jwirr Mar 2015 #40

My brothers were born in the late '40s - late '50s & they were.... Hekate Mar 2015 #39

. hunter Mar 2015 #33

Wow. You are one brave dude, Jesus. beam me up scottie Mar 2015 #42

And yet in the US, circumcision rates have been falling while autism is rising. But I wouldn't pnwmom Mar 2015 #46