This article is clear and devastating. But it’s easy to think only of one wrong study when we could think about science & #reproducibility more broadly. #bioinformatics data analysis workflows should yield explicit provenance for conclusions; “what analyses gives evidence for (thing)?” The original authors assume “remaining data contains no human sequence” but have no independent test. Unfortunately in #microbiome work it’s rare to have multiple tests of data filtering or taxonomic assignment

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