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Sure, there's a validity in it regardless of anything else, but the mechanism is important. If it's not a clear causal relationship, if it's instead just correlative, then it doesn't make any sense to base policy decisions on it, though. Murder rates go up at the same time ice cream sales do, but we're not banning ice cream.