And you think some researchers at UC Santa Barbara, under a professor named "Yasamin Mostofi", are far-right and deliberately snuck in a white-supremacist reference? I have a feeling most of the researchers aren't even white... "Chitra Karanam", "Belal Korany", and "Herbert Cai" are the three Ph.D students. Well.

Of course, even if all people involved were white, and even if it was a deliberate reference, as long as there's nothing other than the number, no one should get in trouble for that. Under no circumstances should researchers be worrying about the numbers they come up with. If you're doing 420 trials at 69 degrees Fahrenheit, so be it.

Cf. this thread: "Six paediatric health‐care professionals were recruited to swallow a Lego head. Previous gastrointestinal surgery, inability to ingest foreign objects and aversion to searching through faecal matter were all exclusion criteria. Pre‐ingestion bowel habit was standardised by the Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score. Participants ingested a Lego head, and the time taken for the object to be found in the participants stool was recorded. The primary outcome was the Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18519899

It would be more interesting if the number 1,488 never appeared in any of the millions of papers containing numbers in the low-thousands range.