I spoke on the phone last week to Simon Craddock Lee, the cancer analyst at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center cited above, about breast cancer in Texas and he pointed to the reality that raw rates of cancer incidence and deaths say
nothing about causality, given the mix of social and environmental factors in play.
Not exact matches
He could say
nothing about what it is, and his own account of
causality precluded assigning it any causal role in relation to the phenomena.
Although
nothing in the laws of nature appears to rule out time travel, physicists have always been uneasy
about it because it makes a mockery of
causality, the idea that cause always precedes effect.
The fact that it has not been unmasked to your or my satisfaction prior to now says
nothing about whether or not the
causality is already operating.
Figure 4 says
nothing about the direction of
causality.