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You keep saying that the numbers would have gotten closer, but I suspect you have absolutely no reason- beyond your own personal expectations- to suspect that they would get closer. Why do your expectations have more credibility than the folks involved with this study?
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Using their numbers in between check-up #1 and #2 (when they 'stopped'), it was 5 vs 6 new cases out of ~1500 in each group. I would like to see them go back now 5 years later and see what the numbers are.
And the national trends don't show a drastic reduction in the speed of infection rates between countries that have similar sexual habits but different circumcision practices.
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How would offering to circumcise the control group affect anything? They circumcised them after the study was finished.
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It seems to me that they already assumed the result would be positive in favor of circumcision at the start.
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I don't know. How long does it take a circumcision to heal?
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It's probably 6 weeks of limited or no sexual activity. And for some reason they thought that they didn't need to start after this. Let alone look at the cost to perform all of the operations, follow-up care when a few of them had problems, and the risk of vaginal tears during sex, it doesn't seem like it is effective as condoms and changing the culture of sex.