Caspar Safarlou

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🎬NEXUS Conversations Episode 2! NEXUS had the opportunity to talk with many global collaborators including Benedikt Warth, Caspar Safarlou, Zodwa Dlamini, and Myriam Mrad at the Exposome Moonshot Forum! @ben_warth @Safarlou Watch here! youtu.be/X19Z8xqfeAU

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Watch AFCM's appearance on the @yaronbrook show, where we discuss the pre-requisites for how to achieve free markets in American healthcare! youtube.com/live/2ig3VlX8B…

#ICYMI...NEW COMMENTARY: Expanding the Scope of Health Research: Reconceptualizing and Defining Exposomics within Environmental Health ➡️ buff.ly/4gVxJXh @Safarlou @vrmlnroel @JongsmaKr @UniUtrecht @UMCUtrecht @UMCU_Intl

@Pdorrestein1 @drchrispook If one does reify components of the exposome, I think you can't overcome the objection that we outline at the beginning of the piece. So I wouldn't say we are 'annoyed,' but just that we take that objection seriously.

@Pdorrestein1 @drchrispook Thanks for reading the article! Note that we argue that having more detail is definitely welcome and even necessary for the division of labor. That is, as long as one is not reifying air quality analysis.

This is a really necessary commentary and doesn't just apply to the exposome. There is far too much 'Omics creep. Existing and functional definitions are being comrpomised by some researcher's compulsions to garnish their work with buzzwords. ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EH…

NEW COMMENTARY: Expanding the Scope of Health Research: Reconceptualizing and Defining Exposomics within Environmental Health ➡️ buff.ly/4gVxJXh @Safarlou @vrmlnroel @JongsmaKr @UniUtrecht @UMCUtrecht @UMCU_Intl

@UMCUtrecht @UniUtrecht @EHPonline @interexposome @HELIXexposome @SinaiExposomics @UMCU_Intl @GaryWMiller3 @dmbalshaw @NIEHS @KogevinasM @HRExposomics @JelleVlaanderen @BaroukiRobert

Many thanks to @Chris_P_Wild, who coined the 'exposome' concept, for writing an invited perspective on our ideas about exposomics: doi.org/10.1289/EHP155…

Interested in the arguments? Our paper, written together with @vrmlnroel and @JongsmaKr is now available here: doi.org/10.1289/EHP145… (open access)

This paper has something for everyone: epidemiologists, biomarker researchers, systems biologists, data scientists, exposome researchers, (bio)ethicists, philosophers of science, and more!

In our new paper, we tackle this objection to exposomics head-on by reconceptualizing the field. We define it as: a research program in environmental health aimed at enabling a comprehensive and discovery-driven approach to identifying environmental determinants of human health.

We also draw from the virtues of productiveness and integrity to provide practical-ethical guidance. By focusing on the purpose and principles of exposomics, we attempt to empower and guide exposomics towards scientific and technological progress.

The thought pattern "exposome research, exposome, study of all exposures throughout the lifespan" should be replaced by "exposomics, research program in environmental health, enabling comprehensive discovery-driven analysis"

Are the exposome and exposomics valuable concepts? If the exposome is just the environment, exposomics would just be the study of environmental health. Then, both concepts would be redundant neologisms, since we already have 'environment' and 'environmental health research.'

What will the future hold for JOTE? Stefan Gaillard, JOTE's third co-founder and current chair, discusses his memories and hopes for the journal. "Because science is such a great enterprise I am very motivated to keep improving it and to protect it." blog.trialanderror.org/founding-jote-…

Why are secular thinkers like @RichardDawkins, @sapinker and others pushing the idea of intellectual or epistemic "humility"? Not for any reason that actually respects the values of science, as I argue in my latest: newideal.aynrand.org/why-a-secular-…