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Two of my physics professors at Queen’s University (Dr. Stewart & Dr. McKee) were the original developers of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) for medical applications. They and a number of other Queen’s physicists also worked on improving the accuracy of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for observing metabolic activity within the human body.

As a graduate student working in the Dept. of Epidemiology, I was approached by a group of nurses who were attempting to organize a protest against male infant circumcision in Kingston General Hospital. They said that their observations indicated that babies undergoing the procedure were subjected to significant and inhumane levels of pain that subsequently adversely affected their behaviors. They said that they needed some scientific support for their position. It was my idea to use fMRI and/or PET scanning to directly observe the effects of circumcision on the infant brain.

The operator of the MRI machine in the hospital was a friend of mine, and he agreed to allow us to use the machine for research after normal operational hours. We also found a nurse who was under intense pressure by her husband to have her newborn son circumcised, and she was willing to have her son to be the subject of the study. Her goal was to provide scientific information that would eventually be used to ban male infant circumcision. Since no permission of the ethics committee was required to perform any routine male infant circumcision, we did not feel it was necessary to seek any permission to carry out this study.

We tightly strapped an infant to a traditional plastic “circumstraint” using Velcro restraints. We also completely immobilized the infant’s head using standard surgical tape. The entire apparatus was then introduced into the MRI chamber. Since no metal objects could be used because of the high magnetic fields, the doctor who performed the surgery used a plastic bell with a sterilized obsidian bade to cut the foreskin. No anesthetic was used.

The baby was kept in the machine for several minutes to generate baseline data of the normal metabolic activity in the brain. This was used to compare to the data gathered during and after the surgery. Analysis of the MRI data indicated that the surgery subjected the infant to significant trauma. The greatest changes occurred in the limbic system concentrating in the amygdala and in the frontal and temporal lobes.

A neurologist who saw the results postulated that the data indicated that circumcision affected most intensely the portions of the victim’s brain associated with reasoning, perception and emotions. Follow up tests on the infant one day, one week and one month after the surgery indicated that the child’s brain never returned to its baseline configuration. In other words, the evidence generated by this research indicated that the brain of the circumcised infant was permanently changed by the surgery.

Our problems began when we attempted to publish our findings in the open medical literature. All of the participants in the research including myself were called before the hospital discipline committee and were severely reprimanded. We were told that while male circumcision was legal under all circumstances in Canada, any attempt to study the adverse effects of circumcision was strictly prohibited by the ethical regulations. Not only could we not publish the results of our research, but we also had to destroy all of our results. If we refused to comply, we were all threatened with immediate dismissal and legal action.

I would encourage anyone with access to fMRI and /or PET scanning machines to repeat our research as described above, confirm our results, and then publish the results in the open literature.

 

Paul D. Tinari, Ph.D.
Director
Pacific Institute for Advanced Study

Circumcision Permanently Alters the Brain

A perfect expose of the current insanity!

To Prevent Tick Bites
To prevent tick bites, simply put a couple of ounces of purified or distilled water in a small spray bottle. Then add 10 drops of eucalyptus essential oil. (If you need more, simply double the recipe.) Before you spray it, shake the bottle. Spray it on any exposed skin, your belt line, pant cuffs, and shoes.

If you find a tick on you it is important to remove the whole tick as once a tick latches on, it’s hard to get it off. Many people pull them off with their fingers or tweezers. But the little devil’s head will more often than not pop off and remain embedded in your flesh.

This can leave you with an infection at best and at worst susceptible to one of those tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease.

And very small ticks are particularly hard to pull out.

To Remove A Tick
To remove a tick that is biting you, just grab a cotton swab and wet the tip. You need it to be wet enough to glide smoothly over your skin.

Then take the wet cotton swab and apply light pressure to one side of the tick’s body. You want to start pushing the tick in a circle around the point where its mouth is anchored to your skin, just as if the tick were a hand on a clock.

Make sure you’re doing this gently. You don’t want to push down on the tick or pull on the tick. Just spin it around the bite.

Eventually, the tick will let go of its grip on you. The head and body should be fully intact. Once the tick is out, wash the area around the bite with rubbing alcohol, iodine, or soap and water.

If you remove the tick right away, you should be fine. But if it’s engorged or has been attached for more than 24 hours, then look for signs of infection (swelling, redness, fever).

If you’re concerned, drop the tick in some alcohol to kill it. Take the tick with you to the doctor so they can tell what kind of tick it is and what type of infection to look for. Treating infections quickly can often stave off long-term illnesses.

And anytime you’ve been walking in tall grass or under trees, always check yourself for ticks when you get back in your house. That way you can remove the tick quickly and avoid infection.

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