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“She feels horrible about all of this. Nobody wants to be in the chain of causation,” Geragos said, adding that he will present evidence of mitigating circumstances at her Dec. 10 sentencing.

Although it was clear there was a strong correlation between areas with higher rates of subsidence and more dramatic drops in housing values, he said his team spent more than a year to establish causation.

Temporal sequence is not causation, but in a public health crisis, a plausible step is mass distribution of an antidote easily administered by lay persons.

One study, Teegarden pointed out, found a correlation between UPF consumption and accidental death — a statistical oddity that likely indicates residual confounding rather than causation.

While rising asylum claims may seem linked to "democratic backsliding" in India, correlation isn't causation, the authors say .