>At the time a very famous statistician (Fischer?) maintained that we couldn't actually tell whether it was causal or not. It was Fisher, here's a fantastic su

>At the time a very famous statistician (Fischer?) maintained that we couldn't actually tell whether it was causal or not. It was Fisher, here's a fantastic summary of the whole episode: https://priceonomics.com/why-the-father-of-modern-statistics-didnt-believe/ https://priceonomics.com/why-the-father-of-modern-statistics... My statistics professor showed us gruesome pictures of what was done in the 70s due to lack of conclusive evidence that smoking causes cancer. They forced dogs to smoke. https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/may/20/thepeople-investigative-journalism https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/may/20/the... Then monkeys. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6782600/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6782600/ Now that we have conclusive evidence that smoking causes lung cancer, have we stopped ? Here's a zoo in China that forces a baby monkey to smoke in an apparent attempt to dissuade future smokers. https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/05/china-baby-monkey-forced-to-smoke-for-zoo-public-health-campaign-15552034/ https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/05/china-baby-monkey-forced-to-s...