> There is also no hardwired conflation of correlation with causation, it's just a general jumping to conclusions error.

There is plenty of literature in the neuroscience and psychology fields that show we are biased towards finding patterns where there are none. Evolutionarily speaking, this is easy to understand. Better to run away one extra time, than getting eaten by a lion. The latter is less likely to pass on their genes.

> People mindlessly parroting anything is not a great success of anything, especially not of science communication.

I respectfully disagree. Appreciating the subtleties of causality is beyond what you can expect from most lay people. Even many of my machine learning colleagues can get tripped up by this stuff. So even if it is simplistic, I still think it is useful that people at least understand that causality is difficult.