Hey Mendel, what’s the mechanism? Hey Morgan, what’s the mechanism? Hey Avery, what’s the mechanism? Hey Prusiner, what’s the mechanism?
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Interesting. There is actually a huge body of philosophical literature about the meaning of 'mechanism' in biology. Here is my take: https://philpapers.org/archive/NICTCO-5.pdf …
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Thanks! I’ll read your paper with great interest.
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You mean specifically during the review process? Otherwise I would have thought it’s fine to ask the question especially if the results are unexpected
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I mean as a barrier to publication
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The opposite is worrying as well. Sometimes scientists try to convince others that the phenomenon to be explained is real based on the fact that they can postulate a mechanism for it (Georges Ungar did this in his peptide memory transfer work):https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003936811730211X …
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Also, my new paper on this sort of issue was recently accepted, and the preprint it up here: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/16885/
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I could not agree more. Too often, “What’s the mechanism?” is a lazy reviewer’s response when s/he just wants to make you do more work. There is always more mechanism to find, until you define the quantum wave function of every particle. It is not always important.
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And even when you show a mechanism, you can be asked for the mechanism of the mechanism (happened). ;)
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and I have been.
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