Does U.S. spending on science, space, and technology cause people to commit suicide?

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Does U.S. spending on science, space, and technology cause people to commit suicide?
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No, it doesn't. There is no connection between spending on science, space, and technology and suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation, and no logical argument to think that there would be. So although this graph shows that the two things are correlated, it is an example of a spurious correlation:

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John Aziz is the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also an associate editor at Pieria.co.uk. Previously his work has appeared on Business Insider, Zero Hedge, and Noahpinion.