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The perils of epistemic misalignment in contemporary microbiome science| title | The perils of epistemic misalignment in contemporary microbiome science |
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| start_date | 2022/09/19 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h |
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| online | yes |
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| location_info | salle de conférence |
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| summary | This talk will explore the use of 16S rRNA as the most frequent sequencing technology in contemporary microbiome science. I track the historical origins of 16S rRNA to show that it was designed to track bacterial phylogeny. After this, I show that a big class of research endevours where 16S rRNA is frequently used to study the microbiome are driven by questions for which bacterial phylogeny is irrelevant, producing what I call an epistemic misalignment between a research question and the methods used to investigate it. I content that this epistemic misalignment is part of what has driven some of the criticisms to microbiome science. Finally, drawing on this, I defend the necessity of knowing the specific research questions that a research method was designed to answer to avoid epistemic misalignment and risk the possibility of scientific failure. |
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| responsibles | Montjean, Delettre, Haas |
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| submitted | published | | 2022/09/15 11:46 UTC |
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