I find it vaguely shocking the false statements that come up in proximity to Pearl's work, like the idea that nobody talked about causality until Pearl. Physic

I find it vaguely shocking the false statements that come up in proximity to Pearl's work, like the idea that nobody talked about causality until Pearl. Physicists talk about causality all the time, in relation to the flow of information. Causality has been a central question in econometrics since at least the 50s -- I'm sure other social sciences are the same.