Correlation Does Not Prove Causation
Except when it does.
I will get a lot of flak for the subtitle of this post, but I couldn’t resist putting these two pictures side-by-side and asking the following million-dollar question: do you observe any correspondence between the order of countries in two lists?
Thank you for posting. Add India and also some countries in Africa that have relied on natural immunity towards herd immunity for an even broader picture.
There are extant variations of the slogan, one being "Correlation is not evidence of causation."
Whatever the Variant it is mostly used by corporate controlled Modern Medicine to dismiss evidence of harms its 'remedies' are doing, and especially, to dismiss claims of the efficacies of any non-mainstream remedies...
My preference is "Correlation suggests causation." - as it indicates Doubt, which is not easily ignored as is the definiteness (Authoritativeness) of the "does not prove" slogan...