Stop falling for misleading headlines. Understand the difference between correlation and causation, and learn how researchers prove real scientific facts.

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Public health is worsening, autism rates are rising — and so are incident conspiracy theories, including claims that the root of the autism evil is vaccines. As the CDC reopens the vaccine-link debate ...

The rooster thinks he summons the sun because the sunrise always follows his crow. Correlation, at its worst, is a very confident rooster. For decades, our data economy has run on the same illusion: ...

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