It wasn't a perfect example, which I borrowed from my recollection of The Book of Why (Pearl, 2018), but your response is besides the point that saying "these s

It wasn't a perfect example, which I borrowed from my recollection of The Book of Why (Pearl, 2018), but your response is besides the point that saying "these studies don't prove causation" is saying nothing. It is the most tiring over stated pointless truism, which is so often said as a response to long term observational drug studies, despite virtually none claim to be establishing causation. This phrase "correlation is not causation" is repeated ad nauseam in response to studies simply drawing correlations, mostly in order to write them off or ignore them. It has gotten to the point where I now expect at least one person to say it as a response to every single study I see posted on the internet where a comment section exists, as if there is some internet law that obligates people to state this truism if it hasn't been stated yet.