Coorelation does not mean causation.

I remember an old study linking ultrasounds to lefthandedness. It was legit. Families with access to ultrasounds lived in countries/areas where lefthandedness was more culturally accepted, places where it was not drilled out of kids. The study was correct, but anyone touting it as causation was totally incorrect.

Fyi, sharks are way more likely to attack people with australian accents. Never go swimming with an auzzi.

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theoreticalmal 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I had an ultrasound and I’m left handed. I finally know why!

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adamors 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You shoudln’t even be entertaining this lunacy with any response. Anything coming out of the RFK jr health department is batshit.

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sandworm101 6 days ago | parent [-]

He was legitimately put into a position of power by the american political system. And this is an article by the BBC, probably the most respected news source on the planet. Crazy is now the norm, the leading voice. It must be confronted.

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mannykannot 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Your first point is correct, but it (like the second one) has no bearing on the issue of the medical soundness of the department's positions and policy.

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sandworm101 5 days ago | parent [-]

But the bbc's reputation does support the facts in the article. I am confident that the stock did drop because of what he said, because i trust the BBC not to make up such things.

	▲	mannykannot 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I feel the same way, but again, this has no bearing on the issue of the medical soundness of the department's positions and policy. Going back to the top of this thread, I agree that correlation does not mean causation, but in this case, we do not yet even have a justifiable claim of correlation, and RFK Jr. has repeatedly demonstrated his propensity for substituting unfounded opinion and incorrect data for empirical facts, if it suits his agenda.

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lupire 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"legitimately" is a stretch, given all the information that has come fourth in the past year.

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jazzyjackson 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

what you resist persists

	▲	sandworm101 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme-as-reason_effect

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thehappypm 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yep, Democratic Party refused to do a real primary so he switched sides

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elric 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon at work; I commented about the ultrasound/handedness the other day.

I wonder whether the political actors in question don't understand correlation != causation, or whether they hope that enough of the populace does not understand it in order to further some goal. But what goal? Buying cheap drug shares? Seems ... silly.