Perhaps you know it, but there's another classic example involving ice cream. It was thought in the 1940's (by the public, by doctors, and by scientists) that

Perhaps you know it, but there's another classic example involving ice cream. It was thought in the 1940's (by the public, by doctors, and by scientists) that ice cream consumption caused children to contract polio. More ice cream is consumed in the summer, there are more polio cases in the summer: https://theglyptodon.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/polio-caused-by-ice-cream/ https://theglyptodon.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/polio-caused-b...