Parabens get a terrible press in the blogosphere. Some of it is from charlatans who are simply out to scare people into buying their products. Some of it is from people who are concerned but not terribly well informed. And a lot of it is simply that people have heard that there is something wrong with them and have accepted the fact without giving it any further thought. I appreciate that you are trying to defend them and that you have a very strong set of arguments. Anyone who reads your comments on this series of blog posts will realise that pretty quickly themselves.

But I don’t want to get into a pro or anti position myself. I want to keep an eye on the data as it comes in and make as good a judgment of what it means as I can. Epidemiology is the only way could ever have shown for sure what the effect of parabens is one way or the other, but they are now too widespread to do that.

Thanks for this and for your other comments.