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I do hope that all of these ‘new organ’ articles have no issue with reproducibility.

There's been lots of confirmation about the brain's lymphatic system in the past 5 years, so you don't need to worry about reproducibility. E.g. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/brains-fluid-drai...

On the other hand, the existence of the G-spot has been controversial for almost 40 years so reproducibility can't be taken for granted.

I think we're back on the G-spot not existing now?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/nov/01/the-sol...

"Not existing" seems kind of misleading considering that article...

The sex tip in the article is that you have to include the clitoris - and once you’ve done that there’s no single special G-spot you can touch to get orgasmic magic, but rather it’s anything that keeps working on the clit from the inside.

Would that even apply to finding new organs?

Methinkss that that'd be hard to not be reproducible.

If only a small fraction of the population has the organ, then yeah, possibly.

That would have surely shown up in this research?

It could happen that it weren't randomly distributed and that it occurs with a statistically higher frequency in the part of the planet where it was done.

But that is quite rare for organs.

Not that rare. There is lots of variability in the presence of muscles and tendons among the population.

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