Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 11140

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.39, p 0.297). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 11139, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 11140
    26 Oct 2026, 19:31 UTC


    BAALC

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionBAALC in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered40eec8cf3f496b78

    discovery-0.39 p=0.297 n=9

    replication+0.11 p=0.785 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.39, p 0.297)

    dataVolpato et al. 2025, ventral substantia nigra (18 donors)

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 11140: BAALC in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.18 (p 0.465, n 18), 95% CI -0.60 to +0.31. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.18 (p 0.465, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.24 (p 0.332, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.27 to -0.06, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.18 (p 0.465, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for BAALC in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.