Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 0584

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.11, p 0.773). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 583, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 0584
    17 Oct 2026, 02:31 UTC

    SCN8A

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionSCN8A in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered73fb2a3e33db849d

    discovery+0.11 p=0.773 n=9

    replication+0.11 p=0.784 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.11, p 0.773)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 0584: SCN8A in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.17 (p 0.504, n 18), 95% CI -0.32 to +0.59. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.20 (p 0.429, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.20 (p 0.418, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.07 to +0.27, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.17 (p 0.504, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for SCN8A in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.