More than 92 percent of Americans have BPA in...

Monday, November 9, 2009

“More than 92 percent of Americans have BPA in their urine, and scientists have linked it — though not conclusively — to everything from breast cancer to obesity, from attention deficit disorder to genital abnormalities in boys and girls alike. Now it turns out it’s in our food.”

Nicholas Kristof - Chemicals in Our Food, and Bodies - NYTimes.com (via shaneguiter) (via halfbakedidea)

There’s urine in our food?

Is BPA linked to being a smartass, too?

(via redcloud)

Given a substance 92% of a population has been exposed to and a rigor of “though not conclusively”, you can link it to anything that happens to members of that population.

Correlation makes for nice scary statements like the above, but that still doesn’t make it causation*.

*Nor does it rule it out as causation. Correlation alone can be a reason to look into something, but cannot be the basis for a conclusion.