There is a small but vocal movement of people who refuse to believe that skin cancer caused by sunlight is a significant health risk. These people tend to also believe that the risk is being purposely hyped by others, and that our current approach to skin cancer prevention is causing an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency….
The story is at White Coat Underground
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Since he’s at wordpress, the bastion of unfettered blogging, I wonder if some cancer-quack will get them to shut down his blog, too? :p
Oh. Ok. Thank you. I’ll let my aunt know that the skin cancer that left countless scars and nearly killed her was just a little bit of over-hyped conspiracy theory initiated by sun screen manufacturers.
…. That said, I’ll agree with the worrisome trend in low vitamin D levels. But I can’t help but wonder if it has more to do with the fact that many of us spend our days inside.
Thanks for the link love.
Send them my way and I’ll horsewhip the hide off their thick asses. There are tens of thousands of people who need surgery pretty much every year thanks to skin cancer and exposure to sunlight is definitely a bit part of it. Some people can tolerate a lot more and never develop cancer and some can’t tolerate much ultraviolet light at all. I’ve known some people who’d get a nasty sunburn sitting in the shade – the UV glare off the concrete is enough to burn ’em. Those sorts of folks also tend to be the ones that get really bad cases of skin cancer later on.
Grrr… in the previous post that’s a “big part of it”, not a “bit part of it”