Adversarial childhood events are associated with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Re:Adversarial childhood events are associated with Sudden I... by patagonia on Sunday July 29, 2018 @12:17PM (#17638831)

There is the whole, reduces your chances of contracting HIV thing...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127372/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-c...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5594533/

Edit: for those down voting, please see child comment with additional studies that are also current and cover multiple populations. HN is generally opening to arguments backed by peer reviewed research, I don’t know why this topic would be any different. Also, DannyBee’s comment is interesting, regarding this article having been previously debunked

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Re:Adversarial childhood events are associated with Sudden I... by bodas on Sunday July 29, 2018 @12:23PM (#17638870)

Chopping the whole thing off would reduce the risk of HIV even further.

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Re:Adversarial childhood events are associated with Sudden I... by patagonia on Sunday July 29, 2018 @12:27PM (#17638896)

I actually don’t understand why providing links to articles with scientific research spanning a decade that backs up a hygiene practice that reduces the costs of one our lifetimes worst global health epidemics would elicit such snarky sarcasm. I actually don’t

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Re:Adversarial childhood events are associated with Sudden I... by rootusrootus on Sunday July 29, 2018 @12:31PM (#17638919)

Please be aware how much of that research sources back to a few studies in Africa. There are a few essential differences between the US and Africa beyond foreskin.

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Re:Adversarial childhood events are associated with Sudden I... by patagonia on Sunday July 29, 2018 @12:46PM (#17639001)

How about a study published this month:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Or one that considers multiple countries:

https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/7974070

Or a 2010 article about men in the United States:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

I’m literally finding this stuff by googling on my cell phone, so clearly you’ve not bothered to check yourself. Given the costs in dollars and lives I don’t understand the biases toward writing this off.

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Re:Adversarial childhood events are associated with Sudden I... by bodas on Sunday July 29, 2018 @07:49PM (#17641088)

I apologise for the snark. However there are other much more effective forms of HIV prophylaxis, such as condoms. I find it hard to imagine that any adult would choose to circumcise themselves because they were worried about HIV.

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