I once TA'd an econometrics class for a fairly famous econometrician He pointed out to the students at one point that all of the studies linking cigarettes and cancer were correlational and just let it hang there for twenty seconds of uncomfortable silence before moving on
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Fisher made the same point, noting that cancers often cause diffuse discomfort long before diagnosis that smoking could plausibly palliate.
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there's a little bit of causality apparently left in the twin studies - more than the nothing burger for obesity but not much
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