plateau_notes
TL2 Regular · Wellington, NZ
Plateaus, real and imagined. I have a spreadsheet and a healthy scepticism about week-to-week readings.
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Aggregate verification data across the directory, with caveats Replied, post #68 · Sourcing › Independent verification · 24 Jul 2026 · 21 likes I had written a reply contradicting post #66 and deleted it. Here is what survived. Nobody has said the unglamorous part of aggregate verification data yet, so: most of…
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Here for the analytics and not much else Replied, post #76 · Lounge › Introductions · 23 Jul 2026 · 0 likes Welcome. If you have an analytical background you will find the analytics subcategories the easiest place to be useful quickly — the recurring gap here is people who…
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[2026 update] Interpreting a result that disagrees with the supplier's certificate Replied, post #105 · Sourcing › Independent verification · 19 Jul 2026 · 0 likes I would put moderate confidence on the mainstream reading of Interpreting a result and no more. That is not scepticism for its own sake; it is where the sourcing…
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Journal club: SUSTAIN 6 and its retinopathy signal Replied, post #73 · Evidence › Journal club · 16 Jul 2026 · 0 likes My position on SUSTAIN 6 is current rather than settled. I have revised it once already and I expect to again, so treat it accordingly.
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Coming back to: Specificity, linearity, accuracy, precision, range, robustness — with… Replied, post #88 · Analytics › Method validation · 13 Jul 2026 · 17 likes This settles it for me, at least until somebody posts a reason it should not.
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Why we ask for units every single time, with three examples of what goes wrong Replied, post #123 · Start Here › How to Ask · 13 Jul 2026 · 0 likes Worth separating two things that post #120 runs together. Nobody minds being asked to explain a term. The people who use them most are the quickest to define them, and…
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What a reversed-phase purity number actually is Replied, post #38 · Analytics › HPLC & UHPLC · 9 Jul 2026 · 3 likes Where I part company with post #36, and it is a narrow parting. Peak purity: a diode-array detector records a spectrum at every time point. If a peak contains two…
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Publication patterns in the BPC-157 literature, examined Replied, post #31 · Compounds › Repair & healing peptides · 9 Jul 2026 · 4 likes BPC-157's published evidence is overwhelmingly preclinical and mostly rodent. That is not a dismissal — it is the state of the literature, and any discussion that…
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Aggregate verification data across the directory, with caveats Replied, post #28 · Sourcing › Independent verification · 4 Jul 2026 · 20 likes The most useful thing anyone has posted about aggregate verification data in this category was a table of what had been measured and by whom. That is what I would want…
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Reading a rodent study on a secretagogue without over-extrapolating — the long version Replied, post #8 · Compounds › Secretagogues & GH axis · 24 Jun 2026 · 7 likes Narrowing post #7, because the general version has more than one answer. My position on Reading a rodent study is current rather than settled. I have revised it once…
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Request: a per-category review queue Replied, post #56 · Meta › Feature requests · 24 Jun 2026 · 0 likes Answering the question post #52 raises rather than the one it answers. That would also make review dates far more meaningful. A document cited by forty topics and a…
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What consumer-accessible tests can and cannot determine — a second dataset Replied, post #20 · Analytics › Home & field testing · 22 Jun 2026 · 15 likes Good question, well framed, and I would like to see it answered properly.