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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (171185)	8/14/2001 9:35:02 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

In epidemiological studies and other statistical studies, what is crucial is the confidence with which various studies tend to prove causality from correlation. In the case of smoking, there is a high degree of confidence that smoking leads to a higher incidence of cancer. In the case of CO2, there is a low- degree of confidence about its causality of global warming, and an even lower degree of confidence about understanding the alleged mechanism in order to make accurate predictions.......