On the Nature of Evidence and ‘Proving’ Causality: Smoking and Lung Cancer vs. Sun Exposure, Vitamin D and Multiple Sclerosis
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epidemiology; causality; association; smoking; lung cancer; vitamin D; sun exposure; multiple sclerosis;All these keywords.
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