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Can recommend Judea Pearl's recent book on the subject. The Book of Why


Was just about the say the same. He has an excellent chapter on the history of smoking research with an interesting anecdote (repeated here https://priceonomics.com/why-the-father-of-modern-statistics...) that the pipe-smoking Fischer refused to believe smoking caused harm well after the evidence was clear because correlation!=causation.




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