Radick, G (2022) Theory-Ladenness as a Problem for Plant Data Linkage. In: Williamson, H.F. and Leonelli, S, (eds.) Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Data Challenges for Agricultural Research and Development. Springer , pp. 27-36. ISBN 978-3-031-13275-9
Abstract
This paper draws upon the history of scientific studies of inheritance in Mendel’s best-remembered model organism, the garden pea, as a source of two parables – one pessimistic, the other optimistic – on the challenges of data linkage in plants. The moral of the pessimistic parable, from the era of the biometrician-Mendelian controversy, is that the problem of theory-ladenness in data sets can be a major stumbling block to making new uses of old data. The moral of the optimistic parable, from the long-run history of studies at the John Innes Centre of aberrant or “rogue” pea varieties, is that an excellent guarantor of the continued value of old data sets is the availability of the relevant physical materials – in the first instance, the plant seeds.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2023. This is an open access book chapter under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2022 12:03 |
Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2023 14:51 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-031-13276-6_2 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:185623 |