http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7508945/Facebook-linked-to-rise-in-syphilis.html
According to this article, increased use of Facebook is causing an increase of people diagnosed with syphilis in Britain. Because as we all know, STDs have evolved to the point where they can now travel down the Internet's Tubes and reach us.
One of the most important rules of statistics is that correlation does not mean causation. That means that, just because one statistic is rising at the same time as another, they aren't related. It's one of the most basic rules, and yet it seems to be the one most often ignored. And these people are being employed by their government....
Happens all the time. Constantly. Bias is omnipresent in just about anything any government touches nowadays. Just following the Michael Atkinson fiasco in Australia is proof enough. He supported a study that showed video games caused more death than smoking.
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