How do we know something causes cancer? Aren’t there essentially infinite variables it would be impossible to control for?

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How do we know something causes cancer? Aren’t there essentially infinite variables it would be impossible to control for?

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Are you talking about cigarettes, or burned toast?

There are decades of studies that show that smoking leads to an increase in the chance of developing lung cancer.

Things like burned toast are often trotted out as causing cancer because journalists can’t read studies.

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