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> In Social Sciences, on the other hand, causal inference is being completely willfully ignored. Why? Causal inference is an obstacle to making a preconceived conclusions based on pure correlations: something correlates with something, therefore ... invest large sums of money, change laws in our favor, etc... This works for both sides. Sadly, I don't think this could be fixed.

This remark is totally ignorant of the reality in the social sciences. Certainly in economics (which I know well) this hasn't described the reality of empirical work for more than 30 years. Political Science and Sociology are increasingly concerned with causal methods as well.

Medicine on the other hand is the opposite. Medical journals generally publish correlations when they aren't publishing experiments.