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
Their experiments focused on a specific scenario, repeated mild brain injury, and used CTE tissue to provide supporting observations rather than direct proof of cause and effect.
From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 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
The Nobel laureate’s work transformed how central banks understand cause and effect in the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
But the correlations do not tell us precisely how population variables function in a chain of cause and effect whose outcome is a complex society.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
