Word: causalism
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...defense, Stanton's telegram pointed out that social scientists have not established that there is a "causal relationship between the fictional portrayal of violence in the mass media and any increase of actual violence in American life." But that may be beside the point. What seems to disturb the majority of the nation's 180 million viewers is not the conclusions of sociologists, but the fact that the horrors of war, assassinations and riots are real enough; why bludgeon TV audiences with variations on violence...
Seltzer added that a close study of the evidence in new reports does not make it any clearer that there is a causal connection between cigarette smoking and coronary heart disease...
...Director of the Demilitarization Study of the Fund for the Republic. To suggest, as he does, that progress towards disarmament merely awaits a new voice describing the international situation in non-agressive language is to ignore all the technical problems posed by multilateral disarmament. He fails to establish any causal relationship between a demilitarized political vocabulary and disarmament...
When Hammarskjold expounds on such themes, he is at his least interesting. Doubtless what he says is true, but it is also platitudinous; surely no one reading that "there is a profound causal relationship between the height of a man's ambition and the depth of a man's fall" will thrill at the keenness of the insight. The Hammarskjold revealed by observations like this is still the conscientious public servant that we have always seen...
...tobacco industry, which is already supporting a considerable body of health research, stands ready to increase that support." Though the Surgeon General's committee insisted that the "causal relationship" of smoking to disease has been proved, it can agree with the tobaccomen that the mechanisms of causation remain to be found...