Word: causalism
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...directly to past violence, point to the history of radical anti-abortion terrorism: A doctor's name goes up on the site, and sooner or later he's shot dead. His name is then crossed off. It's that pattern, Planned Parenthood et al. argue, that establishes a direct causal relationship between the site's apparent directive and actual bloodshed. The defendants argue there's nothing in the site's language that incites violence, that the list is a purely informational vehicle for anti-abortion activists...
...Clinton administration for putting more cops on the street and stepping up antigun campaigns. It's probably more complicated than either of these explanations would suggest, and there will be a rash of analyses; some will point to the rising rates of incarcerations, some may even promote a causal link between the numbers (less drug use means less crime). At this point, of course, everyone will claim as much credit as possible, pat themselves on the back and whisper prayers to the gods of healthy economies...
...Company similarly redesigned its Web site to include a section on smoking and health hazards, and Tommy Payne, director of R.J. Reynolds, announced two weeks ago that his company planned to follow suit. Previously, Philip Morris had only gone so far as to claim that smoking may be a "causal factor" in certain diseases, and many commentators now say that the company has taken a radical step simply by changing a few words...
Compelling though the story may be, it could be a case of adding two and two and getting five. "Elements of this story may be true, but they don?t all fit together in a causal explanation," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Flight plans aren?t usually that explicit. And the U.S. wasn?t sharing information on raids by stealth aircraft with its NATO allies. Pentagon thinking was that the Serbs had been filling the sky with anti-aircraft fire and unguided missiles, and they simply got lucky. There?s no doubt that information was being passed along...
...wave keyboard, keyboard tray and ergonomic chair, Suleiman does see more at work than a simple geometry of elbow angle and chair height: "I always knew from the beginning was that I was never typing enough for it to be purely a result of just typing, so this causal relationship between typing and repetitive strain injury is not what I had. Someone who is on the computer 10 hours a day, just banging away, is one thing, but that wasn t me. Mine came, yes, from doing layout at the Crimson, but primarily from poor posture and, also, from stress...