Word: causalism
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...government supported research with no strings attached. Although over 12 million dollars have already been spent on the project, none of the work is classified, and the federal agency has chosen to take an unobtrusive role. Were it not for an occasional "U.S. Government Property" stencilled on equipment, the causal observer might never guess the government was involved...
...story opens with Max Weber, most of whose works are untranslatable from the German (although some people make feeble attempts) in heated debate with his daughter, Charisma Culpepper. "But, my child, you have been spontaneous and variable for too many years and, I might add, with independent causal effect. It is time you became routinized," Herr Weber blusters out. Charisma, whose independent advantages were causing the routine effects all evening, is horrified at the prospect: "I may even become feudal--and based on benefices," she wails. The domineering father, not to be swayed, commissions Emil Durkheim to find his daughter...
Health Minister J. Enoch Powell told Parliament: "This report demonstrates authoritatively and crushingly the causal connection between smoking and lung cancer." He agreed to carry out the Royal College's recommendation that "general discouragement of smoking, particularly by young people, is necessary." And he promised to consider other measures urged by the Royal College, which would...
Admitting dourly that "it is rare indeed to find a patient who cannot relate some trauma to his tumor," Dr. Auster said careful analysis of well-documented cancer cases shows a possible causal relationship between physical injury and cancer in only about six out of every 100,000 cases. Said Auster: "Twenty-five thousand people a day are reputedly injured in the U.S. Only four people per thousand have tumors. Were trauma to have significance in tumor genesis, we should be overrun with patients suffering from cancer incited by war injuries, surgical operations, biopsy procedures, industrial and sports accidents...
Despite the fact that the health issue is at the heart of the matter, the industry continues to deny adamantly any direct or "causal" cancer-smoking link. It has spent $3,700,000 to set up the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, which is widely regarded as only a smokescreen for the industry. But fortnight ago two reports came out from medical groups partly financed by the committee, holding that 1) smoking taxes damaged hearts, and 2) tobacco users absorb 90% of the nicotine to which they are exposed...