[idlewords]

Randomly sifting through data in search of patterns is not an experiment in the usual sense. With a big enough data set, you're guaranteed to find one in a billion, one in a trillion events by random chance.

[s1artibartfast]

Yes, but you can test those signals against future data and see if they are accurate.

[admax88qqq]

Finding correlations is not the same as finding one in a trillion events.

[kbelder]

When you have a trillion possible correlations, it is.