not talc anymore [SEP] it appears that due to an observational study finding a small correlation between talc and cancer many now believe that science has prove talc bad this is due primarily to ubiquitous misunderstanding of what constitutes science and how enormous a difference there is between the reliability of actual science and observational studies the former after repeated and properly designed experiments provides a strong basis for causal inference while observational studies provide little more than a reason to conduct an experiment of course we never hear about any actual experimental results ie actual science with things like this because either the observation result was merely promoted as a sensational headline and the people who conducted it know very well a minor correlation doesn t even justify the time and expense of an experiment or because experiments were conducted and didn t produce the sensational resultunfortunately when media takes advantage of this widespread misunderstanding good products are removed from shelves and good companies producing good products lose money here it appears the company chose to give in to the hysteria which is a shame i suspect that if their actual customers had much of a voice they d find out this was a bad decision they may find out anyway after people get tired of gelatinous gravy covering parts of their bodies after rubbing corn starch on them and sweating