Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Is Smoking a Cause of Cancer?
There's this conflation between statistical support and cause that people make. My grandmother smoked for 50 years and didn't develop blunt, which is interesting to me because i don't doubt the statistics. But presumably there was something going on with my grandmother in some weird way that didn't actually lead to her having a cancer. No one's denying the correlation. These guys have their statistics. They have billions and billions of numbers that are there but that's not a cause. That's just a way of finding the cause.
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