Re: violence...

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:29:31 -0500

codehead@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> There may be less of a tradition there than you think. In a very
> casual search of under five minutes, I found numerous references to
> the topic area. A real effort at scholarship would probably turn up
> a broader array of references. The belief that there is an "absence
> of any research studies to determine the psychological effects of
> circumcision" does not appear to be the case.
>
> A simple 30 second web search on go2net.com (formerly metacrawler)
> revealed over a hundred entries, including [snip]

Three cheers for codehead! One for delurking, one for donating the time to find the facts, and one for championing the cause of scientific research over endless debate. May it be an example for others!

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