What makes biomedical knowledge specific, sensitive, reliable, or valid? How have biomedical scientists used these evaluative categories in practice throughout the twentieth century? Inspired by these questions, seven members of the Max Planck Research Group “Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences” collectively discuss aspects of validity from within and beyond the epistemic boundaries of their disciplinary approaches.

As the research group will formally close on August 31, 2024, this event serves to give an overview of the group's core questions and presents selected results from their research that illustrate the breadth of the topic.