"Life is too short to quibble about this crap. "

Yup, so have a drink when you want, or don't. We will all die eventually.

... Or will we? Anti-aging research is an area.

even with every disease cured and without aging, you still will die by some random event unless you hide away in a bunker - in which case the bunker will eventually collapse and you will still die

> Every study that comes through here somebody invariably trots out the old "correlation does not equal causation" argument.

Well, it's still true, and still applicable.

> You're not wrong, but you know, sometimes it is causation.

No, I don't know, and neither do you. That's... kind of the problem.

>Life is too short to quibble about this crap.

Then why bother doing science at all?

There are ways to determine the correlation vs causation problem, but yes it takes more effort - possibly redesigning studies, follow up studies etc.

But that's just the price of knowledge. And knowledge is worth quibbling over.