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Original data report · dataset v2026.08.16
State of Supplement Evidence 2026
A build-time analysis of the currently indexable Hippie Scientist research library: evidence grades, structured study/source records, human-study records, reported participant counts, safety cautions, and explicit disagreement between supporting and unfavorable or null evidence relationships.
51 of 318 indexable ingredients are currently A or B.
Preliminary / insufficient
76%
C, D, or Avoid/Insufficient profiles remain visibly separate from stronger evidence.
Structured safety cautions
84%
267 profiles contain caution signals; this is a screening statistic, not a risk rate.
Human trial records indexed
110
Across 922 deduplicated structured study entities. This is a record count, not a count of proven-independent underlying trials.
Human evidence source records
282
Publication/study entities classified as human evidence. 1 deduplicated study record with conflicting concrete design classes is conservatively classified as Other / unclear and excluded from human/trial counts until reconciled. Multiple publication records can still originate from the same underlying trial, cohort, or dataset.
Reported participants
~100,176
Only deduplicated human-evidence records with one unambiguous structured N are included. Overlapping publications may still count some participants more than once.
Endpoint heterogeneity
0
Deduplicated study entities with mixed directional endpoint contexts for the same ingredient. Cross-ingredient variation is excluded from this headline count.
Evidence distribution
How the indexable library is graded
A · 6 profiles1.9%
B · 45 profiles14%
C · 196 profiles62%
D · 43 profiles14%
Avoid/Insufficient · 4 profiles1.3%
Unassigned · 24 profiles7.5%
Category comparison
Where the current library has stronger human-evidence coverage
Categories are ranked by the share of indexable ingredients currently graded A/B, then by structured human-trial record coverage. Human source and trial counts are deduplicated publication entities within each category, not citation incidences or proven-independent underlying studies. Category names come from canonical runtime records; small categories can be volatile.
This counts only records carrying an explicit structured overreach or evidence-language violation flag. It intentionally avoids manufacturing a more dramatic statistic from weak heuristics.
Grade changes are append-only events with the old grade, new grade, date, reason, and source IDs when available. The tracker starts from recorded events rather than inventing historical upgrades from today’s database state.
No historical grade-change events have been entered in the new public ledger yet. Future upgrades, downgrades, and conclusion-changing research can be published without rewriting the past.
The Hippie Scientist. The Hippie Scientist Public Evidence Dataset 2026. Version 2026.08.16. https://thehippiescientist.net/evidence/evidence-report/
Downloaded data includes stable study IDs, source identifiers, study class, reported sample size, dose, duration, population, outcome, limitation, safety outcome, ingredient relationships, evidence grades, and directional labels where structured data exists.
These are raw conflict magnitudes, not subjective severity scores. Candidate values remain available in the downloadable dataset so discrepancies can be reconciled at the source level.
Ambiguous studies
1
Canonical publications with a year, participant-count, or concrete study-class conflict.
Cross-family class conflicts
0
Class disagreements that cross evidence families rather than staying within one design family.
Largest year span
0 yr
Maximum difference between observed publication-year candidates for one canonical study.
Largest participant mismatch
0×
Largest ratio between conflicting structured participant-count candidates; maximum absolute spread is 0.
Evidence independence
Independence-adjusted counts, not assumed independence
The canonical research graph first deduplicates publication identities across profiles, then collapses publications only when explicit trial-registration, cohort, dataset, or parent-study lineage shows they belong to the same underlying evidence unit. Missing lineage stays unresolved and is never treated as proof that publications are either dependent or independent.
Primary-human publications
55
Unique publication identities within the matched public research-profile scope, classified as primary human research.
Independence-adjusted human units
55
Primary-human evidence units remaining after explicitly proven cross-publication dependence is collapsed.
Human publications collapsed
0
Publication identities removed from the adjusted count because shared underlying-study identity was positively established.
Primary-human metadata coverage
20%
Share of unique primary-human publications with explicit registry, cohort, dataset, parent-study, or same-trial metadata available for independence assessment.
44 unique primary-human publications currently lack explicit independence metadata. Those publications remain separate in the adjusted count unless and until the canonical research graph positively establishes shared underlying-study identity.
Approved-claim diagnostic: independence remains unresolved for 7 of 7 approved claims supported by multiple publication-level studies; 7 of those unresolved claims are high-confidence. Mean claim-level explicit lineage coverage is 0%.
Because unknown relationships are left separate, the adjusted study count is a conservative upper bound with respect to unobserved publication dependence—not proof that every remaining evidence unit is independently recruited or generated. These counts are narrower than the report’s “human evidence source records” metric: syntheses and reviews remain publication-level evidence records, while the independence-adjusted figure above is restricted to primary human research. It is not an estimate of unique participants and is not an RCT-only count. Across all study classes in the matched public research-profile scope, the current topology retains 734 evidence units after explicitly proven dependence collapse.
Grade accounting
Unassigned means no single evidence grade is being claimed
24 of 318 indexable ingredients (7.5%) currently remain Unassigned. This includes records where evidence varies by outcome, a single grade is not applicable, or the authored evidence signals cannot be reconciled honestly. These records are kept separate from both stronger grades and Avoid/Insufficient rather than being forced into either bucket.
Which categories rely on direct human research, synthesis, or preclinical evidence?
Primary human evidence includes trials, observational studies, and case reports. Evidence synthesis includes systematic reviews and meta-analyses and is shown separately so review-heavy categories are not mistaken for categories with a deep primary-human study base. “Preclinical” means mechanistic, animal, or in-vitro evidence. Categories with fewer than three structured relationships are omitted to reduce tiny-sample noise.