Spurious correlations are everywhere these days, especially regarding Covid-19, particularly its postulated origin and the alleged side-affects attributed to various vaccines claimed to counter it, but also all sorts of other things, from the wickedness of whites and their pernicious influence on blacks in all manner of things to the existence and causes of so-called climate change to...well, the list is practically endless.
Here are some examples of obviously absurd correlations, but often the absurdity of a correlation is not apparent without solid knowledge of the subject or careful research and reflection. I do suspect, however, that some who are quite aware that the correlations they are promoting are spurious do so assuming those they wish to influence will not realize it. Then there are many cases where the correlation may or may not be spurious, as in the relationship between the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming, but the voices of those who suspect it may be so are suppressed.
Graphs are from the book Spurious Correlations by Tyler Vigen. He's got 30,000 of them!
