When circumcision is performed, appropriate attention needs to be paid to pain relief. The overall evidence of the benefits and harms of circumcision is so evenly balanced that it does not support recommending circumcision as a routine procedure for newborns. There is therefore no indication that the position taken by the CPS in 1982 should be changed. There we go. Since evidence is balanced, neither procircs or anticircs were really wrong.
Nobody looses face, nobody is to blame.
This means all can go home with out any bad feelings toward each other. When parents are making a decision about circumcision, they should be advised of the present state of medical knowledge about its benefits and harms. Their decision may ultimately be based on personal, religious or cultural factors. They acknowledge the existence of the evidence, but remain silent as to its strength. This was what I meant by superficial.