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    Today's falsehood: Correlation Implies/Does Not Imply Causality

    As is the case with all of the Falsehoods in the Falsehoods series, one can never really be sure what the falsehood may actually be. In this case, there are two falsehoods: 1) When we see a statistical correlation between two measurements or observations, we can not assume that there is a...
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    Falsehood: "If this was the Stone Age, I'd be dead by now"

    It is generally thought that life expectancy in the past was less that it is today for our species as a whole and in the case of industrialized countries in particular. However, this belief counts as a falsehood not because it is untrue (it is, in fact, true) but because many people get this...
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    The "Humans are/are not Apes" Falsehood discussion is now in podcast form

    .... along with the discussion of Transhumanism. Click here. Read the comments on this post... More...
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    Falsehood: Humans evolved from apes

    Is it a Falsehood that Humans Evolve from Apes? How about this one: Is it a Falsehood that Humans did NOT evolve from Apes???? Yes and no. Humans descend from a population of primates from which other apes also descended (minimally the two species of living chimps) and which was part of the...
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    Falsehood: Humans evolved from apes

    Is it a Falsehood that Humans Evolve from Apes? How about this one: Is it a Falsehood that Humans did NOT evolve from Apes???? Yes and no. Humans descend from a population of primates from which other apes also descended (minimally the two species of living chimps) and which was part of the...
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