After eating a Big Mac for breakfast, poor Steve had a heart attack and died. The message is clear: Never eat a Big Mac for breakfast.
A) False cause.
B) Weak analogy.
C) No fallacy.
D) Appeal to unqualified authority.
E) Hasty generalization.

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There is no clear causal relationship between eating a specific food item and having a heart attack. There are likely other factors that contributed to Steve's heart attack, making it a false cause fallacy to blame the Big Mac.

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