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Study: Living Near Fracking Correlates With Increased Hospital Visits
New submitter Michael Tiemann writes: An article published in PLOS One finds increased hospital admissions significantly correlate with living in the same zip code as active fracking sites. The data comes from three counties in Pennsylvania, whose zip codes mostly had no fracking sites in 2007 and transitioned to a majority of zip codes with at least one fracking site. While the statistical and medical data are compelling, and speak to a significant correlation, the graphical and informational figures flunk every Tufte test, which is unfortunate. Nevertheless, with open data and Creative Commons licensing, the paper could be rewritten to provide a more compelling explanation about the dangers of fracking to people who live within its vicinity, and perhaps motivate more stringent regulations to protect them from both immediate and long-term harm.
And now for something completely different:
Living near hospitals can increase hospital visits and contribute to glow ball wamming.
Living near hospitals can put in more often into a hospital. (Therefore hospitals can make you sick more often.)
Living near hospitals improves survival rate but hospitals contribute to glow ball wamming.
Hospitals increase death rates in any area where they are set up.
La la la...
I'll give you a correlation is causation scam: anthropogenic global warming