Why the Father of Modern Statistics Didn’t Believe Smoking Caused Cancer

Posted by dnr 7 years, 8 months ago to Science
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While Ron Fisher was incorrect about smoking and lung-cancer, he was right about the fact that a controlled study was near impossible and thus there is no correlation/causation proof. The article also makes points about many other topics where there is no proven correlation/causation relationship, one of those topics being climate change.
SOURCE URL: https://priceonomics.com/why-the-father-of-modern-statistics-didnt-believe/


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