Things That Apparently Cause Cancer

Harvard researchers published studies claiming nuclear power plants cause increased cancer rates in nearby communities, but when critics replicated the methodology using other landmarks like Costco and baseball stadiums, it produced absurdly false results—suggesting the proximity-based statistical approach is fundamentally flawed and proves nothing about actual cancer causation. The studies use a "proximity score" that assigns cancer risk based on distance from nuclear plants, but this same methodology incorrectly attributes cancer deaths to unrelated locations, demonstrating that correlation does not equal causation.