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Response to: Scientists must engage with the ethical implications of their work

International Journal of Impotence Research (2022)Cite this article

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Cunningham [1] takes issue with a single sentence from our paper [2], where we stated that we had ‘no interest’ in the ongoing debates regarding prophylactic, sexual, and ethical aspects of circumcision. Cunningham argues the language we used “is ambiguous and it could… be taken to imply that [we] are indifferent to such questions or do not see them as being relevant to [our] scientific work”. However, as Cunningham also acknowlwedges, “It is possible that [we] meant to convey, simply, that a thorough or substantive discussion of such matters went beyond the scope of what [we] could accomplish with [our] already quite lengthy paper”.

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  1. Cunningham EJ. Scientists must engage with the ethical implications of their work: a commentary on Cepeda-Emiliani et al. Int J Impot Res. 2022:1–2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41443-022-00618-9.

  2. Cepeda-Emiliani A, Gándara-Cortés M, Otero-Alén M, García H, Suárez-Quintanilla J, García-Caballero T, et al. Immunohistological study of the density and distribution of human penile neural tissue: gradient hypothesis. Int J Impot Res. 2022:1–20. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41443-022-00561-9.

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