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	Fallacy: Confusing Cause and Effect
		Therefore A is the cause of B. This fallacy requires that there is not, in fact, a common cause that actually causes both A and B. This fallacy is committed when a person assumes that one event must cause another just because the events occur together.
		More formally, this fallacy involves drawing the conclusion that A is the cause of B simply because A and B are in regular conjunction (and there is not a common cause that is actually the cause of A and B).
		For example, a problem child might be the cause of the parents being short tempered or the short temper of the parents might be the cause of the child being problematic.
	www.nizkor.org /features/fallacies/confusing-cause-and-effect.html (966 words)

	Fallacy of the single cause - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fallacy of the single cause, also known as joint effect or causal oversimplification, is a logical fallacy of causation that occurs when it is assumed that there is one, simple cause of an outcome when in reality it may have been caused by a number of only jointly sufficient causes.
		For instance, after a school shooting, editorialists debate whether it was caused by the shooter's parents, TV violence, stress on students, Hollywood or the accessibility of guns.
		In other words, the possible causes are assumed to be "A or B or C" when "A and B and C" or "A and B and not C" (etc.) are not taken into consideration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fallacy_of_the_single_cause (261 words)

	Fallacy: Questionable Cause
		Therefore A is the cause of B. The general idea behind this fallacy is that it is an error in reasoning to conclude that one thing causes another simply because the two are associated on a regular basis.
		The Questionable Cause Fallacy is actually a general type of fallacy.
		The students suspected acid rain was the cause of both the reduction in the fish population as well as the food supply.
	www.nizkor.org /features/fallacies/questionable-cause.html (413 words)

	Chapter 5
		For these fallacies we argue that the premises are either false (as would be the case in Questionable Dilemma), questionable or unfair (as in the case of Slippery Slope), or presumptuous (as in the case of Questionable Analogy and Begging the Question).
		Questionable Cause and Slippery Slope are very different fallacies, but both do involve causation.
		Questionable Cause is a fallacy of weak induction and always has a causal claim in the conclusion.
	www.hcc.hawaii.edu /~pine/Phil110/chapter5.htm (1169 words)

	Questionable Drugs Cause Jaw To Rot - Health
		They're widely used to prevent thin bones, but they cause osteonecrosis or dead bone and hundreds of lawsuits against the companies that make the drugs are being filed.
		What happened to Malush is happening to thousands of women on medications to prevent bone loss including fosamax, actimel, and boniva.
		They build-up bone but cause a troubling side effect.
	www.thepittsburghchannel.com /health/9799365/detail.html (562 words)

	Utah - Common Cause
		This was the central thesis of Common Cause of Utah and Utah Students for Clean Elections in conducting this study of Utah State Legislator's campaign expenditures for the previous election cycle.
		Each category of "Questionable Expenditures" is prohibited by at least one other state in the union.
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	www.commoncause.org /site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=1694799 (975 words)

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