Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 6073

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.63, p 0.067). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 6072, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 6073
    22 Oct 2026, 04:34 UTC


    PDXK

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionPDXK in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered6c65f255e7fd6dbf

    discovery-0.63 p=0.067 n=9

    replication+0.54 p=0.129 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.63, p 0.067)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 6073: PDXK in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.19 (p 0.450, n 18), 95% CI -0.60 to +0.30. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.19 (p 0.450, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.33 (p 0.188, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.30 to -0.08, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.19 (p 0.450, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for PDXK in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.