Word: causalism
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...acid test of that sort of causal theory is whether it works at the individual level, whether harsh personal misfortune really causes epiphany or just pragmatic accommodation. The jury is still out on which one 1980's political turnabout represented, but I'll hazard a guess that it was the latter, lesser phenomenon. That verdict's not based on any sophisticated contentions that the nation's temporary economic woes did in Jimmy Carter, or that the Republican resurgence was a mere public relations coup capitalizing on the ineptitude of the incumbents--though there's much in both analyses...
Says Horace Kornegay, institute chairman: "While many people believe a causal link between smoking and cancer is a given, scientific research has not been able to establish that link, nor has it been able to determine how normal cells become cancerous." Antismoking groups hailed the study but protest that the Reagan Administration has been inconsistent on the issue. They note that the budget and staff of the Government's Office on Smoking and Health have been drastically cut, and complain that a TV campaign featuring Brooke Shields and aimed at discouraging teen-agers from smoking was scrapped, supposedly because...
...higher mortality rates. Even allowing for the fact that it may be the less healthy widowed who fail to remarry, the researchers feel it is fair to ask whether it may be marriage-or remarriage-that "provides the care and social support that tends to reduce mortality." If a causal connection between remarriage and reduced mortality can be established, they observe, "changes in Social Security and income tax laws to encourage remarriage of the widowed would be justified as public health measures...
...lawman: "These people are not the dregs of society. They tend to be legitimate business people." The Fourth District Appellate Court in Illinois last March ruled that cocaine is not a narcotic and thus is mis-classified in the state's criminal code. Further, the court found "no causal connection between the ingestion of cocaine and criminal behavior." The confusion in law enforcement is compounded by the fact that many coke deals are arranged by lawyers, and lawyers and judges are prominent in the social circles that use the drug...
...causal relationship between tax cuts and inflation has been established...