Microbiology: Microbiome science needs a healthy dose of scepticism (original) (raw)

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To guard against hype, those interpreting research on the body's microscopic communities should ask five questions, says William P. Hanage.

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  1. William P. Hanage is associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,
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Hanage, W. Microbiology: Microbiome science needs a healthy dose of scepticism.Nature 512, 247–248 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/512247a

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