The tragic fires in Los Angeles are on track to be among the costliest and most consequential disasters in U.S. history. Various claims are being promoted as to the cause of the disaster — climate ...

It is often easy to relate a particular thing to a certain cause by association, but it is very important in science to also understand causation; why a certain thing is caused by something else. If a ...

In PSCI 3211 The Politics of Economic Inequality in the U.S., the goals of the course include: understanding the political causes of economic inequality; identifying the political factors that cause ...

One of the major concerns of the plaintiffs' bar was that the Court of Appeals decision in Bostic seemed to require a showing of strict "but-for" causation—so that but for the exposure to a specific ...

Abel Garcia speaks to a doctor on a key distinction between acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, and autism following the Trump administration's recent claims LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The Trump ...

How people acquire and use knowledge about causal relationships is the focus of a new project at the Georg Elias Müller Institute of Psychology at the University of Göttingen. The Reinhart Koselleck ...

In Friday’s Financial Times, economist and author Tim Harford offers a much-needed, unusually considered response to big data hype, using the reported failure of Google Flu Trends to predict a recent ...

Explore concurrent insurance, where multiple policies cover the same risk simultaneously. Learn how it works, its advantages, and potential challenges.

The way we purchase products and services has evolved dramatically in recent years. We are now faced with customer journeys that involve many different paths to purchase – and it’s been a challenge to ...

Causation is often the central concern in proving a toxic tort case. And for those who try toxic tort cases in Texas, the chief case that will determine success is Bostic v. Georgia-Pacific. In Bostic ...