Cor-relation and Causation

By Mistress Babylon Consort

I got my laugh for the day reading this one. Originally posted by the Skeptical Spectacles, this just had me shaking my head. Sadly there are those out there who would believe it. That it is a meme should make the intention and mockery obvious to most, but it doesn’t always. Thomas LeRoy made this same point in his video about Specious Reasoning when comparing the cor-relation between pillows and car crashes: 99% of people killed in car crashes slept on a pillow the night before.  It must be true then, right?

While cor-relation does not imply causation, there are many causes that catch global attention like an out of control firestorm and with it, reason burns down also.  To many insist on relying on pseudo-scientific information that use words like “thought to be”, “may be related to”, etc while ignoring unbiased scientific data and information from reputable journals. .

Whatever happened to being skeptical?