{"id":43652,"date":"2022-06-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/2022\/06\/sbm-department-seminar-andreas-bikfalvi\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T12:42:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T10:42:24","slug":"sbm-department-seminar-andreas-bikfalvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/en\/2022\/06\/sbm-department-seminar-andreas-bikfalvi\/","title":{"rendered":"SBM Department Seminar: Andreas Bikfalvi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/people\/andreas-bikfalvi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andreas Bikfalvi,<\/a> Head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/bric-team\/equipe-1-laboratoire-de-biologie-tumorale-et-vasculaire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Team 01 &#8211; Tumor and Vascular Biology Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>The notion of Truth in the Biomedical Sciences<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The notion of truth has been debated extensively by philosophers and scientists alike for centuries. Relativist and absolutist\/objectivist philosophies have a complete different understanding of the value attached to this notion. In this presentation, I will discuss a number of issues related to the notion of truth in the biomedical sciences. I will first lay out different meanings and forms of truth and then discuss how this relates to the notion of causality. I will then describe how the biomedical science produces &#8220;truth&#8221; and lay down the different ways to achieve this (induction, causal inference, falsification, Baysian approach, etc..).<\/p>\n<p>I will then illustrate this by citing examples from the medical history and present-day biomedical research related to infectious disease, vascular biology and cancer research. I will then show that a strong relativist epistemology is incompatible with the way biomedical science obtains knowledge. Thus, in my view, a realistic notion of truth is central to achieve a sound understanding of physiology and pathology, and for the development of therapies grounded in a correct knowledge of disease.<\/p>\n<p>June 21 at 2 p.m., IBGC conference room, Carreire.<\/p>\n<p>Photo \u00a9Gautier DUFAU<\/p>\n<p><strong>The recording is online!<\/strong><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">jQuery(function() { _initLayerSlider( '#layerslider_7_hayhsrjiffsq', {createdWith: '7.2.1', sliderVersion: '7.2.1', allowFullscreen: true, skin: 'v6', sliderFadeInDuration: 350, useSrcset: true, skinsPath: 'https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/LayerSlider\/assets\/static\/layerslider\/skins\/', performanceMode: true}); });<\/script><div id=\"layerslider_7_hayhsrjiffsq\"  class=\"ls-wp-container fitvidsignore ls-selectable\" style=\"width:600px;height:350px;margin:0 auto;margin-bottom: 0px;\"><div class=\"ls-slide\" ><ls-layer style=\"font-size:36px;color:#000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;text-transform:none;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:#000;background-position:0% 0%;background-repeat:no-repeat;top:18px;left:20px;\" class=\"ls-l ls-media-layer\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/73b3_XlCMwQ\"><\/iframe><\/ls-layer><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andreas Bikfalvi, Head of Team 01 &#8211; Tumor and Vascular Biology Laboratory. &#8220;The notion of Truth in the Biomedical Sciences&#8221; The notion of truth has been debated extensively by philosophers and scientists alike for centuries. Relativist and absolutist\/objectivist philosophies have a complete different understanding of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44194,"href":"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43652\/revisions\/44194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bricbordeaux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}