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While this study establishes a correlative relationship rather than a causal one, it could influence the way patients and clinicians alike think about headaches...
...headache? That’s what you get after eating too many hotdogs.” Other nitrite and nitrosame-containing foods implicated in this study include sausages, Chinese-style salted fish, and bacon. Although the correlation is very strong, this study does not point to a causal relationship between eating cured meats and leukemia, said Christiani. In order to show causation, researchers must look into the mechanism of how extracts from cured meats affect bone marrow at the cellular level. “These results need to be confirmed in other studies before doctors can make strong recommendations...
...causes violence. This is a very common argument that's been made pretty much from the beginning. There are a number of things that are wrong with this. One is that it posits an incredibly simpleminded causal relationship between music that has violent narrative in it and actual violent action. Hip-hop takes the bigger weight for this problem than anyone else. And the reason it takes such a big weight is not because it's any more violent than slasher movies or than horror movies or action movies in general but because there is a denial about the violent...
...related to the religion only as a matter of convenience.There is no objective correlation between the behavior of the Islamists and the religion of Islam, just as there is no objective correlation between the events of September 11 and America’s supposed misdeeds. There is no clear causal reason for either relationship. Amis explains this lack of causality quite succinctly by saying that “we are not dealing in reasons because we are not dealing in reason.”Amis knows reason, and that is all. He may be able to recognize, where America cannot...
...result, as he tries to balance his own convictions with a need to assure Florida's large number of independent voters that he and McCain are on the same page, Crist's stances are being scrutinized almost as closely as the Republican nominee's. "People now see a causal linkage [to McCain] in everything he says," notes political analyst Susan MacManus of the University of South Florida in Tampa...