And that's fine. And essentially irrelevant to the discussion of individual incidents, especially when the connection is made on essentially zero information about what media and messages this particular person had been consuming.
It looks as stupid, to me, as blaming a specific hurricane on global warming or using a specific snow storm to argue against it.
But outside the context of a specific event with no specific chain of causality I am all in favor of the discussion. Product X should be reformulated to not cause those two extra cancers if at all possible, but that doesn't mean I get to say it caused my cancer.
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