However, the cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment is that we sort out the science from the culture before opinions become inflamed. Fortunately, the language of causal diagrams now gives us a way to be dispassionate about causes and effects not only when it is easy but also when it is hard.
This is a difficult problem, and unfortunetly probably always will be
