Javier Suárez (@javiersuarez.bsky.social)

I just published "Scrutinizing microbiome determinism" @HPLSjournal , where I analyse the (ungrounded) deterministic biases underlying microbiome research. Some of these are inherited from the genome project, but they acquire new dimensions in this field link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Scrutinizing microbiome determinism: why deterministic hypotheses about the microbiome are conceptually ungrounded - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences This paper addresses the topic of determinism in contemporary microbiome research. I distinguish two types of deterministic claims about the microbiome, and I show evidence that both types of claims a... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40656-024-00610-0