Dr Norman Swan and his entanglements with the post hoc fallacy

Associate Professor Hassan Vally
Dr Norman Swan.

Last week, ABC journalist and physician Dr Norman Swan suggested the heart attacks of two high-profile people over the past year were unlikely to be a coincidence.

The suggestion was that it was too unlikely two people in their 50s died of myocardial infarction after being infected with COVID for these events not to be connected.