cause and effect
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Their results showed a direct cause and effect link between faulty mitochondrial activity and cognitive symptoms associated with neurodegenerative disease.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
Because this was an observational study, it cannot prove cause and effect.
From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026
By identifying this previously unknown layer of interaction between gut bacteria and the immune system, the study shifts the field beyond simple associations and toward understanding cause and effect.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
But 34 years later, Sims and Sargent would share in the 2011 economics Nobel for “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
And this brings us to Hume’s third category of connections, cause and effect.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
