Weaponized Logic—How ‘Correlation vs. Causation’ is Used to Dismiss inconvenient Truths

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As you all may know, I love a good debate.

According to Myers-Briggs, my personality is that of the ‘ENTP’—the debater.

I’ve come to take pleasure in engaging with individuals from the mainstream media, especially when they spew disinformation. This engagement has led to works like The Fake Intellectual and Why Blocking People Stunts Your Growth.

Disinformation: the purposeful spread of false information to mislead

Most of the time, the topics of these discussions revolve around vaccines and their side effects. I’m sure most of you all can relate especially coming out of the pandemic.

When showing the side effects of the vaccines, especially death, the rebuttal is usually, “correlation does not equal causation.”

“Correlation does not equal causation” — I heard it so many times it makes me sick.

So, today, not only are we going to address this phrase, we’re also going to address another one known as “confounding variables.”

Confounding variables can be p…