Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 2002

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.47, p 0.204). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 2001, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

The slip

  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 2002
    18 Oct 2026, 11:38 UTC

    ACE2

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionACE2 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredacff92ede7a31ccc

    discovery+0.47 p=0.204 n=9

    replication+0.44 p=0.240 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.47, p 0.204)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 2002: ACE2 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.36 (p 0.137, n 18), 95% CI -0.12 to +0.71. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.45 (p 0.063, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.49 (p 0.041, n 18). not the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.28 to +0.50, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.36 (p 0.137, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for ACE2 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.