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  • Chapter 13 - Causal Crypticity

  • from Section 3 - Key Concepts for Biosocial Research
  • Edited by Michelle Pentecost, King's College London, Jaya Keaney, University of Melbourne, Tessa Moll, University of the Witwatersrand, Michael Penkler, University of Applied Sciences, Wiener Neustadt
  • Book:
    The Handbook of DOHaD and Society
    Published online:
    20 June 2024
    Print publication:
    27 June 2024, pp 155-165
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    The concept of ’causal crypticity’ was introduced by Richardson (2021) to describe the DOHaD field’s high tolerance for both causes and effects that are challenging to observe in nature, show small effect sizes, and are unstable across study populations and contexts. Causal crypticity can be understood in three ways: as an epistemic norm; as a boundary-delimiting signature of field culture or epistemic style; and as a promissory mode. Increasingly, causal crypticity characterises many fields of the big data-rich, postgenomic life sciences, making DOHaD science a useful index case for scholars of the history, philosophy, and social studies of science interested in the epistemic terrain and social implications of postgenomic sciences. The chapter concludes with a discussion of ethical and accountable claimsmaking in DOHaD science under conditions of causal crypticity.