Comments on: Chop Chop!!! http://www.metafilter.com/2420/Chop-Chop/ Comments on MetaFilter post Chop Chop!!! Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:15:50 -0800 Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:15:50 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Chop Chop!!! http://www.metafilter.com/2420/Chop-Chop <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000710/sc/aids_circumcision_dc_1.html">Chop Chop!!!</a> Circumcision seen to help prevent the spread of AIDS. Unfortunately, that's a little late for those already infected. You just have to hope that the people understand that it is male circumcision, and not female that helps protect. post:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.2420 Tue, 11 Jul 2000 06:53:08 -0800 da5id circumcision aids disease health stds By: sawks http://www.metafilter.com/2420/Chop-Chop#12521 <a href="http://metafilter.com/detail.cfm?link_ID=2061">snap :)</a> personally i think education might make a bit more sense.... comment:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.2420-12521 Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:15:50 -0800 sawks By: ZachsMind http://www.metafilter.com/2420/Chop-Chop#12525 This could mislead some men to believe, if they are circumcized, the risk is greatly lessened and so they wouldn't worry about it as much. If the difference between control groups is 1.1 per 100 circumcized men and 1.6 for uncircumcized, that's rather ridiculous. It could simply be pure chance. Flip a coin ten times. You might get heads seven and tails three, but that doesn't change the 50/50 odds. It has been reported that uncircumcized men have to do more hygenically speaking than circumcized men, and some just don't. That would increase the chances for all STDs, but only for men who are generally not hygenic anyway. Bottom line: I don't buy it. The studies and statistics are misleading. Just because someone is circumcized, that doesn't make them immune, it doesn't even decrease one's chances of getting STDs to any noticable degree. comment:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.2420-12525 Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:45:17 -0800 ZachsMind By: ZachsMind http://www.metafilter.com/2420/Chop-Chop#12527 Re: sawks Oh pooh! That's what I get for composing these things in between doing other crap. comment:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.2420-12527 Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:05:54 -0800 ZachsMind By: da5id http://www.metafilter.com/2420/Chop-Chop#12528 ooops... missed that post... Thanks for linking the discussion sawks. comment:www.metafilter.com,2000:site.2420-12528 Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:10:55 -0800 da5id