What will Klausner do if people simply don't want it?

Jeffrey Klausner has published a shrill piece [summary] in Future Medicine decrying the apparent lack of interest in circumcision, which he says is at least as good as any vaccine and the "'only modality for preventing' sexual HIV transmission that has been proven to work by the 'highest standards of scientific evidence.'" [Reference.] Moreover, he claims it prevents a myriad of other sexually transmitted diseases.

He's crazy.

Frankly, I'm not sure whether this is good news or bad news. Such shrillness surely signals the author's sense that people aren't as interested as he would like them to be. On the other hand, he clearly is signaling to the world that he intends to make this his life mission.

There's only one thing to do. Sharpen your pencils and ready yourself for Target Klausner.

Comments

[SunkenShip]

"They neglect to realize that, for example, HIV has been circulating in West Africa for over 80 years and yet there is still no country there, or elsewhere, where nearly all men are circumcised and adult HIV prevalence is above 6% "

Yoo hoo morons.

Cote d'ivoire:
http://www.unaids.org/en/CountryResp...e_d_ivoire.asp

Average HIV Prevalence: 7.1

According to most data, circumcision is regularly practice in the Ivory Coast

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_worldwide

Halperin and his ilk are so see-through.

[SunkenShip]

Whoops, here's the right link for Ivory Coast's HIV prevalence rate:

http://www.unaids.org/en/CountryResponses/Countries/côte_d_ivoire.asp

Other circumcising countries with high HIV prevalence rates:

Nigeria
http://www.unaids.org/en/CountryResponses/Countries/nigeria.asp

Lesotho
http://www.unaids.org/en/CountryResponses/Countries/lesotho.asp

Kenya
http://www.unaids.org/en/CountryResponses/Countries/kenya.asp

Cameroon
http://www.unaids.org/en/CountryResponses/Countries/cameroon.asp

[Joe in CA]

The 'only modality for preventing' sexual HIV transmission that has been proven to work by the 'highest standards of scientific evidence.'
eh?

I suppose all those circumcised men dying of AIDS in the US just happen to be hypochondriacs. Or maybe those "standards" Klausner is referring to just aren't high enough? (One can hardly call equipping newly circumcised men with condoms, advising them to engage in safer sex, and accrediting the lower incidence in HIV transmission to circumcision 'scientific.')

"Such shrillness surely signals the author's sense that people aren't as interested as he would like them to be."

Indeed, it is easy to see he doth protest too much.

He deserves the same attention as would be given to any 'scientist' proclaiming the wonders of blood-letting. A quack fond of a lie.

[anon]

Shrill? You mean he sounds like so many of the [intactivists]?

[Joe in CA]

You might say he sounds like a baby being circumcised.

Sadly, too many people get off to that.