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exposure

Original: exposure on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Woman: Studies have shown a correlation between semen exposure and better mental health for women!

Panel 2:
Man: Okay?
Woman: This is why it's important to fund controversial basic research! Can you imagine a corporation funding something so potentially embarrassing?

Panel 3:
Woman: But, by looking at everything with dispassion and curiosity, who knows what miracles we may uncover?

Panel 4:
Man: If that's true, and it's a chemical effect, we could isolate it and make it synthetically.
Woman: That seems like a frivolous use of tax dollars.

Votey:
A man looks downcast as a speech bubble emerges. Speech bubble: Some things we are not meant to know

Alt text

A four-panel comic. A woman enthusiastically tells a man that studies show a correlation between semen exposure and better mental health for women, citing it as a reason to fund controversial basic research that a corporation would be too embarrassed to fund. She praises approaching everything with dispassion and curiosity to uncover miracles. The man replies that if it's a real chemical effect, they could isolate it and produce it synthetically. The woman immediately recoils, saying that seems like a frivolous use of tax dollars, revealing her interest was in the act rather than the science. Votey: a hand-drawn man looks glum beneath a speech bubble reading 'Some things we are not meant to know.'

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.