[marcosdumay]

Well, that's how you discover things. You go fish for correlations, and publish any interesting findings, so another group can get independent data and check them.

On the meanwhile, a news reporter gets your (probably spurious) correlations and announce them for the entire world as "the TRUTH! science says so, and you don't doubt science, do you?"

That's basically how science gets done on any complex field where we can't test things directly.