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Schneider Shorts 11.09.2026 – Serendipitously strengthened by novel unanticipated data – For Better Science (opens in a new tab)

Schneider Shorts 11.09.2026 – Serendipitously strengthened by novel unanticipated data · 2026-09-11

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Schneider Shorts 11.09.2026 – Serendipitously strengthened by novel unanticipated data – For Better Science

Schneider Shorts 11.09.2026 – Serendipitously strengthened by novel unanticipated data · 2026-09-11

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Claim 1 of 9Not supportedBill Ackman is described as having used his wealth and influence to support a novel mitochondria-transfer intervention for his daughter Lucy's vision loss, then publicly launching a $400 million institute focused on longevity and brain health.View evidenceHide evidence

As stated$400 million

Why this verdict

The supplied paper profile is about a quantum-entanglement clinical-death trial and contains no evidence about Bill Ackman, mitochondrial transplantation, his daughter Lucy, or a $400 million institute.

Claim 2 of 9Not supportedThe article says the mitochondrial transplantation preprint tied to Ackman's daughter's treatment did not work, and that the reported brief effect was likely unrelated to the injected mitochondria.View evidenceHide evidence

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The supplied paper profile contains no mitochondrial-transplantation preprint, vision-loss treatment, control status, or assessment of whether an injected mitochondria intervention worked.

Claim 3 of 9Not supportedThe article reports that Dan Ariely lost another paper after Data Colada said there was no benign explanation for anomalies suggesting tampering or fabrication in an influential 2002 procrastination study.View evidenceHide evidence

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The supplied paper profile contains no information about Dan Ariely, Data Colada, a 2002 procrastination study, tampering, fabrication, or a retraction.

Claim 4 of 9Not supportedThe article reports a retraction of a 2001 FASEB Journal paper by William Aird and Ruhul Abid after concerns about duplicated and reused Western blot panels and unavailable raw data.View evidenceHide evidence

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The supplied paper profile contains no information about William Aird, Ruhul Abid, a 2001 FASEB Journal paper, Western blot duplications, raw data availability, or a retraction notice.

Claim 5 of 9Not supportedThe article says Nicolas Lévy lost a 2006 Nucleic Acids Research paper after concerns about duplicated input bands, blot splicing, and other figure irregularities, with the journal losing confidence in the results.View evidenceHide evidence

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The supplied paper profile contains no information about Nicolas Lévy, a 2006 Nucleic Acids Research paper, duplicated input bands, blot splicing, figure irregularities, or loss of editorial confidence.

Claim 6 of 9Not supportedThe article says Rui Reis was confirmed again as director of I3Bs in Portugal despite a long record of alleged scientific misconduct and retractions among his collaborators.View evidenceHide evidence

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The supplied paper profile contains no information about Rui Reis, I3Bs in Portugal, institutional directorship, misconduct allegations, retractions, or collaborators.

Claim 7 of 9Not supportedThe article says Andre Van Wijnen replied to criticism of a 2024 osteoarthritis mouse study and dismissed the use of the wrong antibody as serendipitous, which the writer mocks as impossible to justify.View evidenceHide evidence

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The supplied paper profile contains no information about Andre Van Wijnen, a 2024 osteoarthritis mouse study, antibody use, or responses to criticism.

Claim 8 of 9Not coveredThe article says the purported clinical-death study appears fabricated or at least deeply unreliable, citing lack of trial registration, implausible consent language, suspiciously uniform site counts, and questionable hospital descriptions.View evidenceHide evidence

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The paper profile at abstract depth does not provide trial-registration records, ethics-approval language, consent forms, site-by-site recruitment details, or hospital descriptions. It therefore cannot verify the story's integrity allegations that the study was fabricated or deeply unreliable on those grounds. The abstract does have important missing protocol/method details, but absence from the abstract is not enough to substantiate the story's stronger fabrication framing.

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Quantum entanglement of the stimulation circuit was verified via statistically significant violations of Mermin inequalities.statistically significant violation reported

“In the first large-scale, randomized, double-blind, multicenter trial … conducted across 13 hospitals in the UK and Spain”
Claim 9 of 9SupportedA study titled 'Quantum evidence of nonlocal consciousness during clinical death' is described as a first large-scale, randomized, double-blind, multicenter trial across 13 hospitals in the UK and Spain, claiming that consciousness may persist during clinical death when exposed to auditory stimuli governed by quantum entanglement.View evidenceHide evidence

As statedfirst large-scale randomized, double-blind, multicenter trial; 13 hospitals; 142 survivors

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The abstract-level profile supports the story's description that the paper presents itself as a first large-scale randomized, double-blind, multicenter trial across 13 UK/Spain hospitals, with 142 survivors completing forced-choice recall testing after in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest. It also supports that the intervention involved auditory stimuli governed by quantum entanglement and that the authors interpret the findings as supporting persistence of consciousness under quantum-bound conditions during clinical death.

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Quantum entanglement of the stimulation circuit was verified via statistically significant violations of Mermin inequalities.statistically significant violation reported

“In the first large-scale, randomized, double-blind, multicenter trial … conducted across 13 hospitals in the UK and Spain”
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Entangled auditory stimulation was implemented and synchronized to the IBM Brisbane 127-qubit quantum computer, and entanglement was reported as confirmed through statistically significant violations of Mermin inequalities.statistically significant violations of Mermin inequalities

“The entangled stimulation circuit was implemented and synchronized with the 127-qubit IBM Brisbane quantum supercomputer …”
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  • The paper reports that the auditory stimulation circuit was synchronized with a 127-qubit IBM Brisbane quantum computer and that entanglement was verified by statistically significant violations of Mermin inequalities.

    The story mentions quantum-entanglement-governed stimuli in general, but does not reflect the specific reported implementation and verification claims from the abstract.

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  • The paper includes secondary biomarker analyses measuring NIRS cerebral oxygenation, brain temperature, blood pH, lactate, and serum BDNF during resuscitation, and relates them to recall lucidity/NDE measures, including a reported model explaining up to 56.8% of recall variance.

    The presented story claims do not cover the biomarker measurements, association analyses, or variance-explained modeling reported in the abstract.

    From Observational in-arrest biomarker acquisition with association and predictive modeling of post-reanimation recall/NDE ou

  • The paper states that false memories, hallucinations, and confounding biases were successfully controlled through post-reanimation clinical control assessments, but the abstract provides no detail on instruments, timing, blinding, operational definitions, or statistical support.

    The story raises different concerns about registration and ethics, but it does not reflect this specific paper element: the authors' claimed cognitive-confound controls and the abstract-level lack of detail needed to appraise them.

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  • The paper presents itself as a randomized, double-blind, multicenter clinical trial in 13 UK/Spain hospitals, delivering entanglement-governed auditory stimulation during in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest and testing 142 survivors after reanimation.
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1Lead resulthuman in vivoTest whether consciousness can access information during clinical death when exposed to auditory stimuli governed by quantum entanglement, using a large-scale randomized, double-blind multicenter trial in in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest patients.Randomized, double-blind, multicenter clinical trial delivering entanglement-governed auditory stimulation during in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrestExpand

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Large-scale randomized, double-blind, multicenter clinical trial (13 hospitals, UK and Spain) testing whether human consciousness can access information during in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest (CA) when exposed to auditory stimuli governed by quantum entanglement. Entangled auditory stimulation, synchronized with a 127-qubit IBM Brisbane quantum computer, was delivered beginning 120 s after arrest onset. Entanglement was reported as verified via statistically significant violations of Mermin inequalities. During resuscitation multiple neurophysiological biomarkers were recorded (cerebral oxygenation via NIRS, brain temperature, blood pH, lactate, serum BDNF). After reanimation, 142 survivors completed forced-choice recall testing, near-death experience (NDE) scales, and clinical control assessments. Reported results include a transient increase in recall lucidity coincident with NIRS decreases, a positive correlation between NDE measures and neuroplasticity during CA, and biomarker-based models explaining up to 56.8% of variance in recall. The authors report controls for false memories, hallucinations, and confounding biases and interpret the findings as supporting persistence of consciousness under quantum-bound conditions during clinical death.

Key findings

  • Quantum entanglement of the stimulation circuit was verified via statistically significant violations of Mermin inequalities.statistically significant violation reported
  • 142 survivors completed forced-choice recall testing and other post-reanimation assessments.
“In the first large-scale, randomized, double-blind, multicenter trial … conducted across 13 hospitals in the UK and Spain”
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3 further details could not be confirmed from the summary.

2otherEstablish and verify that the auditory stimulation used in the trial is genuinely quantum-entangled (e.g., via violations of Mermin inequalities) and synchronized to a quantum computer implementation.entanglement verification and hardware synchronizationExpand

In plain English

The study reports implementation of an entangled auditory stimulation circuit that was synchronized to the 127-qubit IBM Brisbane quantum supercomputer, with entanglement confirmed by statistically significant violations of Mermin inequalities.

Key findings

  • Entangled auditory stimulation was implemented and synchronized to the IBM Brisbane 127-qubit quantum computer, and entanglement was reported as confirmed through statistically significant violations of Mermin inequalities.statistically significant violations of Mermin inequalities
“The entangled stimulation circuit was implemented and synchronized with the 127-qubit IBM Brisbane quantum supercomputer …”
What this piece can’t prove

2 further details could not be confirmed from the summary.

3human in vivoCharacterize neurophysiological and biochemical biomarkers during cardiopulmonary arrest/resuscitation and relate them to recall lucidity and near-death experience measures after reanimation.Observational in-arrest biomarker acquisition with association and predictive modeling of post-reanimation recall/NDE outcomesExpand

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In survivors of in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest, the study measured cerebral oxygenation (NIRS), brain temperature, blood pH, lactate, and serum BDNF during resuscitation and related these in-arrest biomarkers to post-reanimation forced-choice recall lucidity and near-death experience (NDE) measures using correlation and multivariable predictive models; models of biomarkers reportedly explained up to 56.8% of variance in recall.

Key findings

  • During resuscitation the study measured cerebral oxygenation (NIRS), brain temperature, blood pH, lactate, and serum BDNF.
  • Recall lucidity (post-reanimation forced-choice recall) reportedly increased momentarily as NIRS values dropped during resuscitation.
“During resuscitation, we measured neurophysiological biomarkers including cerebral oxygenation via near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), brain temperature, and blood pH, lactate, and serum concentrations of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).”
What this piece can’t prove

3 further details could not be confirmed from the summary.

4human in vivoAssess and control potential cognitive confounds (false memories, hallucinations, biases) and evaluate whether these could explain recall/NDE outcomes.Expand

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The abstract reports that after reanimation 142 survivors completed a forced-choice recall test, near-death experience (NDE) scales, and additional clinical control assessments; the authors state that false memories, hallucinations, and confounding biases were "successfully controlled." The abstract provides no details on the specific instruments, procedures, timing, operational definitions, assessor blinding, or statistical tests used to establish that these cognitive confounds were controlled.

Key findings

  • The study reports that false memories, hallucinations, and confounding biases were successfully controlled among 142 survivors who completed post-reanimation recall and NDE assessments.
“After reanimation, 142 survivors completed a forced-choice recall test, near-death experience (NDE) scales, and other clinical control assessments.”
What this piece can’t prove
  • Abstract lacks essential methodological detail needed to evaluate the adequacy of cognitive/confound controls (instruments, procedures, timing, blinding, statistical criteria).
  • Unclear whether the post-reanimation control assessments were independent, standardized, or validated for the intended purpose; residual bias may remain.

1 further detail could not be confirmed from the summary.

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