We are very good at finding correlations. It is still very hard to prove causality in natural phenomena from experiments, specially when we cannot control them. This became blatantly obvious in the covid outbreak where nobody had a clue for months about whether masks would help or not. Edit to clarify: It is very hard to prove to causality and be sure that you did not mess up.
You are wrong about people being good at finding correlations.
I rarely met people who can process a sufficiently large sample size in their memory to calculate any significant correlation results. Whereas guessing correlations from charts exposes you to a number of optical illusions, which will fool the brain into seeing things that don't exist.
There may be a propensity to make more type 2 errors and see correlations between any random things such as 5G and COVID, but I haven't seen any research on that.
