The argument from correlation to cause in science communication


 The main activity within popularized science communication is the expert‐to‐layman transferral of scientific knowledge. Correlative connections have proven to be a problematic concept adequately communicate and form relatively common source for misrepresentation Depending on strength causal claim, such an inferential step can considered “argument from correlation cause”. This paper reconstructs argumentative pattern that typical these arguments proposes number critical questions their evaluation. Finally, analysis presented natural example reasoning correlational evidence cause context science.