MissPickwickian wrote:
Because correlation always implies causation. It's not like any other factor could intervene and cause illness twenty years after someone gets their shots. Nope, evil has a single tiny root.
I'm sorry, but while it may seem that way, correlation does not imply causation. Merely because two events occur in the same context or in sequence does not prove that one causes the other. To state otherwise is to commit the Fallacy of False Cause.
Example #1:
1) Bob went to bed fully clothed.
2) Bob woke up the next morning feeling sick.
:: Going to bed fully clothed makes people sick.
Never mind that Bob was too drunk to undress himself before going to bed, and that he suffered a hangover the next morning.
Example #2:
1) Sue prays for rain.
2) It rains within 7 days.
:: Prayer brings rain.
Sue also lives in County Donegal in Ireland, where the likelihood of rain on any given day over the course of a year is slightly greater than 50%.
Correlation does not imply causation; people
infer causation, and usually from incomplete knowledge.
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