Correlation equals causation if you like the implications. Soft science is hard science if it helps you justify your biases. Same reason people flock to a fail

Correlation equals causation if you like the implications. Soft science is hard science if it helps you justify your biases. Same reason people flock to a failed "psychologist" who tells them to clean their room and live like lobsters (except, y'know, he doesn't actually understand lobsters either). Same reason some random Xoogler kid misquoting cherry-picked "facts" is defended by HN commenters. Same reason a throwaway troll comment remains unflagged and undeleted for hours. But hey, as long as we all pretend to be anarcho-capitalists, we can still claim we're revolutionaries.