Juan Bautista Bengoetxea, “Causalidad y regulación: algunas dificultades de los ensayos controlados aleatorizados,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 77, no. 4 (2021): 1409–38, https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2021_77_4_1409.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Juan Bautista Bengoetxea |
| Rights | © 2021 by Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1409-1438 |
| Publication | Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia |
| ISSN | 0870-5283 |
| Date | 2021 |
| Extra | Causality and Regulation: Some Issues around the Randomly Controlled Trials |
| DOI | 10.17990/RPF/2021_77_4_1409 |
| Language | Spanish |
| Abstract | The article focuses on the key importance of causality in regulatory activities in the social sciences and especially in nutrition. After a brief presentation (Sec. 1), the text proposes several ways of examining the notion of cause and of conceiving it from a philosophical perspective (Sec. 2). Section 3 particularly discusses the counterfactual way, understood as a broad approach to conceiving causation in terms of its relationship to randomized controlled trials (RCT) and, by derivation, to the objective character of the latter. Section 4 examines the evidence underlying RCTs and the role they play in regulation. Evidences are linked to causal statements that are usual in RCTs and whose nature is not exempt from a criticism in areas such as the evidence-based medicine (EBM) (Sec. 5) and, above all, nutritional sciences (Sec. 6). In Section 7, it is claimed a plural methodological perspective that would improve the production of results in nutrition that would act as a basis for making regulatory decisions. The last section closes the argument of the article. |
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