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   Who would have thought, I was for a time highly contagious.
   Dozens of women are infected, imagine the repercussions.
   Sperm contacted me your honour, persecute him I am harmed.

   I am very dubious about this, because it’s very hard to explain.
   Sperm have a lifespan, they can’t go swimming for ever.
   If sperm are living forever, what is giving it energy to live.
   Just as sperm are already months old, is it surviving the same way.
   It’s one thing to detect the DNA, but does it do anything.
   Is it just dead sperm floating around, not processed by the body.

   If this is true with a real effect, then this is a very serious topic.

   Comment by DJ Ward — Mon 31st March 2025 @ 8:00 pm

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   Here’s a comment on this post by Mark Honeychurch, editor of the September 2025 NZ Skeptics Newsletter:

   This post links to an article posted to Natural News, which anyone who’s been a skeptic for a while will probably recognise as Mike Adams’ horrifically pseudoscientific alternative medicine website, where disinformation is spread and unproven remedies are sold.

   Of course, the actual paper that is referenced in the Natural News article says nothing remotely like the summary on Natural News or the MENZ site. The study looked at how many women, from a sample of 59, had a marker (the Y chromosome DYS14 gene) that suggested they had some male DNA in their brain (something called microchimerism – where small amounts of foreign DNA from the same species are found inside an animal). They propose that this may be due to the women having given birth to a male child (although they didn’t have access to any records to confirm or deny this), with the child’s DNA having crossed over into the mother, and then across her blood-brain barrier. And, as with many scientific papers, this one warns that it’s preliminary and that more research is needed.

   Comment by JohnPotter — Thu 30th October 2025 @ 9:11 am

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   Here’s a comment on this post from Mark Honeychurch from the September 2025 NZ Skeptics Newsletter:

   This post links to an article posted to Natural News, which anyone who’s been a skeptic for a while will probably recognise as Mike Adams’ horrifically pseudoscientific alternative medicine website, where disinformation is spread and unproven remedies are sold.

   Of course, the actual paper that is referenced in the Natural News article says nothing remotely like the summary on Natural News or the MENZ site. The study looked at how many women, from a sample of 59, had a marker (the Y chromosome DYS14 gene) that suggested they had some male DNA in their brain (something called microchimerism – where small amounts of foreign DNA from the same species are found inside an animal). They propose that this may be due to the women having given birth to a male child (although they didn’t have access to any records to confirm or deny this), with the child’s DNA having crossed over into the mother, and then across her blood-brain barrier. And, as with many scientific papers, this one warns that it’s preliminary and that more research is needed.

   Comment by JohnPotter — Thu 30th October 2025 @ 9:11 am

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