If You Thought Circumcision Debates Were Heated Before�

Things are about to get much, much hotter. That's because the authors of a new review of research, which was published online this week and will be in the May issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, have taken the already contentious topic of circumcision and super-charged it by introducing another infant intervention flashpoint, vaccinations.

The paper begins with an explanation that rates of circumcision in the US have not been properly reported, and what seems like an increase over time in...