Reply #297: It's an absurd question and proposition

[depakid]

that I have NEVER ONCE heard anyone mention in public health circles or anywhere else -except for a few zealots on DU.

Anti-vaccination folks I've heard, but circumcision obsession (particularly in the face of what's now overwhelming evidence of a strong protective effect against disease) is a strange phenomenon that seems to me to have a more to do with "the psychology of prior investment" and "buyers remorse," than with any rational weighing of benefits or drawbacks.