Most of us have heard the phrase "correlation does not equal causation." But understanding how scientists move beyond identifying correlations to establish causation remains a mystery to many. Finding ...

RAILWAY AGE JANUARY 2023 ISSUE: Welcome to “Timeout for Tech with Gary T. Fry, Ph.D., P.E.” Each month, we examine a technology topic that professionals in the railway industry have asked to learn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abel Garcia speaks to a doctor on a key distinction between acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, and autism following ...

The rooster thinks he summons the sun because the sunrise always follows his crow. Correlation, at its worst, is a very confident rooster. For decades, our data economy has run on the same illusion: ...

News headlines often compress complex science into a simple storyline: If two things are happening at the same time, one must be causing the other. Tylenol causes autism. Ultra-processed foods cause ...

A comment posted by a reader on a recent post reprimanded me for suggesting that marijuana caused relationships to go bad. In this instance the reader was mistaken, as I had specifically used the word ...

RFK Jr. has been yelling about the causes of ASD for years. Of course, there’s his pet, debunked theory about vaccines and autism that he’s been busy pushing into policy.

I come not to praise nor to bury ultra-process foods. This piece, however, is an indictment of those trying to find a facile scapegoat [1] on which to blame current problems.