Pith Number

pith:HWP6PZVF

pith:2010:HWP6PZVFLDRL5XSAPEYGUT4G5F

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The Spread of Evidence-Poor Medicine via Flawed Social-Network Analysis

Russell Lyons

arxiv:1007.2876 v3 · 2010-07-16 · stat.ME · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HWP6PZVFLDRL5XSAPEYGUT4G5F}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:18:54.662275Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d9fe7e6a558e2bede4079306a4f86e95b96ab305e3097549e8c86af0cfd6351

Aliases

arxiv: 1007.2876 · arxiv_version: 1007.2876v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1007.2876 · pith_short_12: HWP6PZVFLDRL · pith_short_16: HWP6PZVFLDRL5XSA · pith_short_8: HWP6PZVF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HWP6PZVFLDRL5XSAPEYGUT4G5F \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 3d9fe7e6a558e2bede4079306a4f86e95b96ab305e3097549e8c86af0cfd6351

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8c71c1608b1788df1c93edafde5b3b9001072f5f023186eef81a263695e1486",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2010-07-16T21:39:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "11cfb7df0cedb332449491032de8901acfad5be8302f0fefb23ecf6a0e3dee9a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1007.2876",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}