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Prof Paul Pharoah, from the University of Cambridge, said the fact the risk did not increase with increasing amounts of night shifts suggests the link seen may not be causal.
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Leibniz therefore believed that the future of most things could be predicted by examining their causal connections.
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Narcissism, of course, wasn't invented by the Internet and it would be absurd to establish a causal connection between self-love and mass murder.
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He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving but did not face the more serious charge of causing death by dangerous driving because no causal link could be established between his texts and the crash.
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The researchers said although a causal effect could not be proven, the way they had done the study strongly suggested that it was exposure to alcohol in the womb that was responsible for the differences in child IQ.
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Our brains move known causal patterns to long-term storage so that our attention can be devoted to learning new things.
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Physicists call these causal loop paradoxes, and they affront our desire for the universe to be a rational and ordered system.
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As is usually the case in studies of this sort, the sample size was small (and therefore not as robust as might be desirable) and the result showed an association, rather than a definite, causal relationship.
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The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency currently advises that there is insufficient evidence of a causal link between the drug and suicidal behaviour, although it now says it should not be given to children.
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Bloomberg justifies his nanny-state interventions by pointing to the social costs of obesity, but there is no direct causal link between obesity and 20-ounce sodas with sugar in them, and neither would it be anyone's business at all except for the increasing government control and subsidies for health care.
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