No Coincidence?

“It is surely no coincidence that everyone in Britain drinks tea, and everyone there dies.”

Theodore Dalrymple, Mass Lysteria 1988

Subtitle “The Meaning of Health Scares”

This is a not so subtle illustration of the often ignored truth that correlation does not prove causation.


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