Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 8040

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.16, p 0.672). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 8039, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 8040
    23 Oct 2026, 23:48 UTC


    RAD51B

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionRAD51B in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredd79d017bda80c69d

    discovery-0.16 p=0.672 n=9

    replication-0.01 p=0.982 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.16, p 0.672)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 8040: RAD51B in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.08 (p 0.761, n 18), 95% CI -0.53 to +0.40. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.11 (p 0.664, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.29 (p 0.243, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.22 to +0.05, sign flips 4; without severely affected donors -0.08 (p 0.761, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for RAD51B in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.