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

• dhshahsndeisjwn 7y ago
  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-didnt-believe/ 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.