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References:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/sex-makes-you-rich-why-we-keep-saying-e2809ccorrelation-is-not-causatione2809d-even-though-ite28099s-annoying/ Sex Makes You Rich? Why We Keep Saying “Correlation Is Not Causation” Even Though It’s Annoying
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/ije/dyh124 Commentary: The hormone replacement–coronary heart disease conundrum: is this the death of observational epidemiology
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/nitelite.htm Night lights do not lead to nearsightedness, study suggests
http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations Spurious correlations
http://sciencebasedmedicine.org/evidence-in-medicine-correlation-and-causation/ Evidence in Medicine: Correlation and Causation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488611/ Illusions of causality: how they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced
http://io9.gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800 I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here’s How.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-the-chocolate-diet-hoax-fooled-millions/ How the “chocolate diet” hoax fooled millions
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?