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Have Causal Claims About the Gut Microbiome Been Over‐Hyped?
Author(s) -
Bourrat Pierrick
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/bies.201800178
Subject(s) - causation , microbiome , scrutiny , gut microbiome , causality (physics) , epistemology , biology , psychology , genetics , philosophy , political science , law , physics , quantum mechanics
Microbiome research attributes to whole microbiomes a causal role in the occurrence of different health outcomes. I argue, following some distinctions about causal relationships and explanations made within a philosophical account of causation, the “interventionist account,” that such claims need more scrutiny.