Blinded Me with “Science”

David Warren, like me, is tired of being beaten about the head and shoulders with observational studies masquerading as “settled science.”

According to the latest research, he writes facetiously, coffee may be good for your heart….Actual science would show the mechanism by which a specific constituent in coffee, such as caffeine, operates within the human metabolism to produce specific reactions in a long, very specific chain, leading to a specific result. … The rest is, to be perfectly colloquial, bullshit,

How many times must we tell the hoi polloi, CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION?

Tip from American Digest.