Foreskins Obsolete?

A recent study found that circumcision reduces the risk of HIV by 70%! Researchers had earlier hoped to produce a vaccine reducing HIV risk by 30%, but the classic surgical procedure proved more than doubly surpassed even this goal in the study, before it prematurely concluded. According to the San Francisco Chronicle:

the study under way in Orange Farm township, South Africa, was stopped because the results were so favorable. It was deemed unethical to continue the trial after an early peek at data showed that the uncircumcised men were so much more likely to become infected.

In other words, the results were so clear so fast that researchers felt compelled to halt the study and give the uncircumcised men a chance to get snipped and join the (much) safer half of the sample.

Either God or Abraham gets credit for being super smart and being out in front on this bandwagon. Way to think outside the box!