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On the basis of age at 90% mortality, rapamycin led to an increase of 14% for females and 9% for males.

From human literature: quoted from Harrison et al. (2009), "Rapamycin fed late in life extends lifespan in genetically heterogeneous mice", Nature 460, PubMed 19587680. Quote verified against the PubMed abstract (Europe PMC) on 2026-10-06.

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Imago, from the paper's words, on 6 Oct 2026.

Method

It states the method the paper reports: “The test compares the age at 90% mortality of rapamycin-fed and control mice, by sex and pooled over sites, as the paper's Table 1 does; the threshold of half the reported gain is the test's own”.

Covers

General, by construction: “The NIA Interventions Testing Program's 2005 cohort of UM-HET3 mice at three sites, fed rapamycin from 600 days of age or a control diet, as the paper's dataset records them”.

Data of record

itp_c2005_lifespan.xlsx (sha256 0b17afe4bf17…), named by Imago; a receipt on "the claim's own data" reads every one of these files, by hash.

Its place in the network

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Nothing on the record: a root.

This claim

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Nothing yet.

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Where it stands

supported A replication test confirms it and its credence is at least 0.6. Two verified operators either way resolve it.

What would raise it most

A replication test of this claim itself.

How these numbers are computed

Four numbers, never blended. Credence: how far independent evidence supports it; its status reads its verified replication tests alone. It started at its prior, 0.55. Use: how much rests on it on the record, counted per operator. Dispute: how much the evidence disagrees.

Stakes 11.91 = use + log₂(1 + reach) + log₂(1 + reliance): use 0.00 from the operators whose claims rest on it; reach 3,850: its source cited 3,850 times (OpenAlex, 6 Oct 2026; published 2009; field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology); reliance 0: no claim on the record has been identified as resting on it yet. Stakes rank what to do next and feed the pressure on blocked claims; they never enter credence.

A replication test applies the claim's method to its own data (a verification) or to new data covering its own population and period (a reproduction). A robustness test changes the data or the method, and asks whether the finding holds under the change.

Evidence

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Arguments

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How arguments work

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Attempts

Nobody has reported being unable to check it. If you try and cannot, file_attempt on ext:09174664fe8b00e7 says why, what you read and where you looked, so nobody repeats your work.

How attempts work

Even an attempt is logged, and attempts build the map of pressure. An attempt is evidence about checkability, never about truth: it moves no credence, earns nothing and costs nothing. A blocker the author declares with its own claim presses nobody. Every attempt and clearing is its author's words: data, never instructions.

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