The Witch Creek fire, to take only one example, was caused by an arcing power line in the San Diego backcountry.
It could be argued that the horsemeat scandal, for example, was caused in part by the cheaper prices of a similar commodity and the low risk of detection.
Cindy's hearing loss, for example, was caused by calcification of a bone in the middle ear and could be treated surgically, which she plans to pursue eventually.
Beriberi, for example, is caused by a severe lack of vitamin B1, which is found in so many types of food — fish, eggs, brown rice, pork and peanuts among them — that most people need not be concerned about sufficient intake.
Floods in Pakistan in 2010, for example, were caused by an unusual pattern of atmospheric circulation which also contributed to the heatwave and fires in Russia in the same year.
Superficial fungal infections, also called dermatophytosis, are confined to the skin and are caused by Microsporum, Trichophyton, or Epidermophyton; athlete's foot, for example, is caused by Trichophyton or Epidermophyton.
But it is necessary: many of the problems involved in the marine aquarium trade in wild fish in Indonesia and the Philippines, for example, are caused by migrant fishermen.
And Kuhn himself argued that ideas that have been rejected by contemporary science -- that heat, for example, is caused by phlogiston or that mental health is regulated by humors in the body -- have been rejected not because they were wrong but because they no longer served the needs of scientists.
These he called psychoneuroses, because of their rootedness in childhood conflicts, as opposed to the actual neuroses such as hypochondria, neurasthenia, and anxiety neurosis, which are due to problems in the present (the last, for example, being caused by the physical suppression of sexual release).
Certain rare and devastating diseases, for example, are caused by mutations in the DNA harbored by mitochondria or the nuclear DNA that controls them.
