Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a common fallacy. Because something follows does not mean that it's caused by what precedes. CNN’s Sanjay Gupta invoked the "paradox of ubiquity" to refute the assertion that acetominophen causes autism. The piece of illogic in this paradox is actually beautiful--the idea being that there's such a plethora of examples that’s is impossible to create meaningful correlations. Don’t place your bet on the tortoise btw thinking of paradoxes. Then there is the Trolley Problem which is ethics. A conundrum which defeats the notion of necessity is however a lifeline in a platform (ie the world) filled with tendentious and ultimately falsely drawn conclusions.
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