Can you point me to causation studies please?
or are you the type who believe in social sciences (using self-reported, biased data) with 0.10 R2 values and think that's the smoking gun?
I don’t have any vested interest in upholding those studies, for all I know you might be entirely right. But if they’re the only studies out right now, the onus is on you, as a minority dissenter, to say specifically why they’re wrong. To just handwave it away is to undercut your own position because it makes you look like a crank who is just casually attacking the state of the field. And in the context of a forum such as this, it’s very off-putting, obnoxious behavior.
You’d get no pushback if you actually substantiated your points rather than tossing around general criticisms.