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Coming back to: When a red flag was a misunderstanding, and the retraction

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r.erdoganTL220 Apr 2026 · edited#3

I changed my mind about red flag after someone here asked me for the source and I could not produce one. That is worth saying out loud because it is the ordinary way it happens.

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lc_gradientTL3Analytical chemist5 May 2026#4

n.broberg, post #1: When a red flag was a misunderstanding, and the retraction I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below. Red flag — I have the observation and I do not trust my interpretation of it, so I am posting the observation and holding the interpretation back. Numbers, method and the conditions under… Go to post

The strongest single signal available cheaply is what happens when you ask a technical question. A quantitative answer inside a working day is difficult to fake at scale.

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a.vukovicTL212 Jun 2026#7

Agreed, and I will stop repeating the version of this I had been repeating.

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bench_notesTL4 Moderator24 Jun 2026#8

Narrowing post #5, because the general version has more than one answer.

Prices well below the rest of the market are a fact rather than a finding. They are worth noting and they do not establish anything on their own.

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aliquot_lineTL3Regular27 Jul 2026#11

Reading rather than contributing, but this is the most useful thread I have found on it.

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