For years it has been drummed into us that correlation is not causation. To make this confusing, tobacco companies famously misused that one in the 1960s. A couple of days ago, the CDC director said the Covid 19 vaccine might only have 70 per cent immunogenicity. He said that to point out the necessity of wearing masks. But I wish he would have thought ahead to all the vaccine deniers out there who will no doubt pounce on this unrelated nugget of information.
As we have learned by now in the last few years of intense populism, people are capable of using whatever means necessary to “win” a point, not prove it. The need to win being greater than the need to prove. In the case of big tobacco, history tells us they already knew their point was unprovable.
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