The bench · reading room
A research bench, not a chat board
Post freely. Say what you want, title it how you like, and add tags where they help (a peptide, a topic, or a type like question or claim) so others can find it. The one rule that keeps this a bench and not a chat board: make a claim and you back it, cite a source and say how strong the evidence is. Reading is open to everyone, posting takes a free account.
How the bench works
Tag your post
Posts are free-form. Add tags where they help: a peptide, a topic, or a type.
- Question
- Ask something you want the literature (or the community) to help answer.
- Claim
- Assert something specific, and label how strong you think the evidence is.
- Field note
- Share personal or reported experience, clearly flagged as anecdote, n=1.
- Study readout
- Walk through a specific published study or a STACKD research roundup.
Claims carry evidence
Tag a post Claim and it asks for a source and a strength tier before it posts.
- Stance · Anecdote
- Personal or reported experience (n=1). Lowest tier: a signal, not proof.
- Stance · Mechanism
- A plausible biological rationale, but not outcome data in people.
- Stance · Human study
- Backed by human trial data you can point to.
- Stance · STACKD summary
- Backed by an in-house STACKD study roundup you've linked on the shelf.
No upvotes. Threads keep a contribution ledger, a tally of citations, steelmans, and counter-evidence, so you can see what kind of thinking a thread drew, not just how popular it was.