Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 8950

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.26, p 0.504). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 8949, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 8950
    24 Oct 2026, 19:32 UTC

    LACTB

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionLACTB in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered86db37ba97c23365

    discovery+0.26 p=0.504 n=9

    replication-0.50 p=0.168 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.26, p 0.504)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 8950: LACTB in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.17 (p 0.493, n 18), 95% CI -0.59 to +0.32. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.11 (p 0.677, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.04 (p 0.888, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.32 to -0.05, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.17 (p 0.493, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for LACTB in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.