Patterson in Pursuit
Patterson in Pursuit
Steve Patterson
"But What's the Mechanism?"
9 minutes Posted Oct 5, 2025 at 6:20 pm.
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The desire to understand mechanism has led scientists, doctors, and researchers into grave error—the “mechanism fallacy”—thinking that correlations are not causally connected if the mechanism is not understood.



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