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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Doctors Opposing Circumcision

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ralph welcomes Dr. George Denniston, founder of Doctors Opposing Circumcision, who argues that male circumcision is unnecessary, unethical, as well as physically and psychologically harmful. Then Public Citizen’s, Rick Claypool, gives us an update on how the Trump Administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy for border crossings and street crime does not extend to his buddies in the corporate world. Plus listener questions!



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0:00.0

From the K-P-F-K studios in Southern California,

0:03.6

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.7

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.8

You've been sitting ready to jump.

0:10.9

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with the man of the hour. Ralph Nader. Hello Ralph.

0:20.0

Hi. David Feldman is out with the flu today.

0:22.8

I guess he's a victim of that big cold snap you guys are having out there.

0:27.2

So at the top of the show today, we are going to talk about something a little less abstract

0:31.9

than we usually do.

0:33.6

We're going to be talking to Dr. George Deniston.

0:36.3

He is the founder of Doctors Opposing Circumcision,

0:39.8

whose mission it is, and I quote,

0:42.0

to eradicate the unethical and unnecessary practice of partial

0:46.0

penile amputation of children, not only because of the harm that has done to millions of American

0:51.2

boys and men, but also because it has damaged the reputation of the medical

0:56.1

profession." Dr. Deniston is a Princeton classmate of Ralph's, and we look forward to his

1:02.1

insights into something most of us take for granted, but has big cultural, religious, and medical implications.

1:10.0

We're also going to be talking about how the Trump administration continues to let corporate crime flourish.

1:16.0

We're going to hear from public citizens Rick Claypool, co-author of a study that tracks the enforcement of corporate crime by the Department of Justice.

1:24.3

Here's a hint. It's not the same zero tolerance policy the administration

1:29.3

brings to border crossings and street crime and not to pile on to the poor multinational corporate

1:34.8

behemoth but as always we will give way for another minute to get our weekly

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