Post hoc fallacy. Doesn’t prove causation, just proves that fat people eat lots of food from plastic containers.
“Plastics Derived Endocrine Disruptors (BPA, DEHP and DBP) Induce Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Obesity, Reproductive Disease and Sperm Epimutations”
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0055387
We avoid the stuff at our house. Which means no plastic bottles or cans. Cans are lined with it. Also be careful with cash register receipts. They’re coated with it.
I initially thought it was ‘post hoc’, but, upon consideration, concluded it was ‘cum hoc ergo propter hoc’ (a phrase with which I was unfamiliar until a moment ago). That is to say, correlation does not equal causation.