> Correlation is not causation, etc. This certainly is a true and tested adage, but I've got a feeling that the correlation-backlash has gone too far in the ot

> Correlation is not causation, etc. This certainly is a true and tested adage, but I've got a feeling that the correlation-backlash has gone too far in the other direction. Don't just repeat it without getting it. If substantiated through proposal of a suitable mechanism, correlation is solid corroboration of a causality-claim. More precisely, correlation most definitely never implies absence of causation.