Reminds me of John Snow's discovery and demonstration of the cause of cholera, which I learned about in the context of casual inference in this excellent paper

Reminds me of John Snow's discovery and demonstration of the cause of cholera, which I learned about in the context of casual inference in this excellent paper by statistician David Freedman: https://psychology.okstate.edu/faculty/jgrice/psyc5314/Freedman_1991A.pdf https://psychology.okstate.edu/faculty/jgrice/psyc5314/Freed... Actual science looks nothing like the shoddy paper churning that we see in much of econ and social science using questionable and assumption-heavy casual inference methods.