Tasty, but often lacking in nutritional value:
"First, there is Causal Salad: You put everything into a regression equation, toss with some creative story-telling, and hope the reviewers eat it. In general, this is not a valid approach, for well-known reasons. But it can get you published. Causal salad can discover causes too. But you have to get lucky. The Salad isn’t only regression. Really any procedure that hopes to take a list of variables (features) and return causal inference is Causal Salad. No amount of data reliably turns salad into sense."
https://elevanth.org/blog/2021/06/15/regression-fire-and-dangerous-things-1-3/