Does the sun cause skin cancer or do sunscreens cause it? This one has bugged me forever.

rick · 5/22/2025, 2:08:39 AM · permalink

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saarnok · 5/22/2025, 1:57:20 PM · permalink

I have exhaustively proven that broken legs are cause by falls from trees. Thus, all other proposed causes must be false.  
  
This is the underlying logic of pretty much every "solution" to every problem.  
  
If you have the capacity to do the research you will find, virtually every time, that someone proposed 'X' to be the cause of 'Y' and whether through manipulation of data and people or simple societal acceptance that explanation comes to be accepted and all proposed solutions tend to revolve around that starting assumption.  
  
The people of the pre-modern world viewed nature as an enemy, inhabited by, and even controlled by invisible hellish minions seeking to harm people. Special people who wore ceremonial clothing told these people what rituals to perform or submit to in order to avoid this harm.  
  
In the modern world of course we are much more enlightened. Nature is obviously controlled by invisible pathogens which just so happen to cause harm to people. Special people who wear lab coats tell us what procedures we should perform or submit to in order to avoid this harm.  
  
In both the pre-modern and modern world, the greatest problem lies with those who choose to ignore the experts and make (absurd) logical deductions, such as the idea that people must have evolved to take advantage of sunlight, live symbiotically with the other life on Earth and generally not need intervention so long as their basic needs are met.  
  
To these insane "individualists" these mad advocates for "thinking for themselves" and a hundred other excuses for not taking the advice of experts, sunscreen, along with a myriad of other interventions are obvious problems, costly products we're better off without on average.  
  
It's a slippery slope from suspecting sunscreen lotions of being harmful to imagining that bloodletting isn't useful! How far will this nonsense go before we stop entertaining these nutjobs? Next they'll be advocating for not using mercury as medicine for babies!

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