Burden of Proof Studies and Health Risk

Much public health data comes in the form of “X increases your risk for developing Y”. Sometimes this is colloquially stated as “X causes Y”, but this is less accurate. For example, everyone by now should know that “smoking causes lung cancer” by which we mean that smoking increases the statistical risk of developing lung cancer. Most risk data is correlational, because […]

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