Yup, that kind of "everyone and his dog SURELY knows" reasoning is spotted in the wild along with attempts to cover up real world problems.
Correlation is a tool which can be useful to notice causation.
Like with Nth case of finding WMD in Mid East countries by pure accident and without any will to bomb a country into ruins swarming with fanatics instead of bombing it into democracy.
And yes, my correlometer tends to treat wikipedia links correctly: as links to *unauthoritative* source that is known to be manipulatable.
