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This article breaks Betteridge's law. The answer is not "no", but it might not be "yes". In fact, the article promotes the viewpoint that sun exposure is actu

This article breaks Betteridge's law. The answer is not "no", but it might not be "yes". In fact, the article promotes the viewpoint that sun exposure is actually good for you, whereas butter is probably not essential. If the sunscreen recommendations turn out to be too strong, this would be good news for me, as I have never liked having to apply sunscreen and dislike the scolds who push it on me when I don't feel I need it. But the article glosses over the fact that people who tend to burn rather than tan get more melanomas, and that melanoma can be a very insidious cancer. So, if I know I'm going to get a lot of exposure (beach, air show, whatever) I am going to use sunscreen to prevent burns.

darkmighty 8y ago
Yes I think it's good not to be carried away and burning yourself is definitely not good. What's certainly good for you is getting consistent, long term exposure that's compatible with your levels of tan.
- paganel 8y ago
  That was my take on it, also. If you’re a very light-skin person living in Australia (probably because your ancestors have come there from gloomier places like Ireland and Scotland) then it’s probably a wise choice to not let go of using sunscreen. On the other hand, it seems that vitamin D supplements do nothing for the darker skin people who happen to work in places like Seattle or even Amsterdam (I have a former colleague who used to complain about the latter as always being cloudy).
  - democracy 8y ago
    We went to the Gold Coast a few years ago and I got terrible scars (that are still visible) after one hour of just walking around and looking for a bottle shop with no sunscreen on my skin. It definitely hurt my body as well as my holiday plans.
mrfusion 8y ago
I propose mrfusions law: in any discussion of an article with a headline ending in a question, someone will mention Betteridge’s law.
- projektfu 8y ago
  I find it helpful to know if the answer is no. Betteridge's law suggests you can avoid reading the article because the headline writer is trumping up the findings.
- pstuart 8y ago
  Nothing personal, but to keep the namespace clean it should probably be the Betteridge Effect.
tom_ 8y ago
The problem is that you aren't interpreting the title literally enough...

darkmighty 8y ago

Yes I think it's good not to be carried away and burning yourself is definitely not good. What's certainly good for you is getting consistent, long term exposure that's compatible with your levels of tan.

paganel 8y ago
That was my take on it, also. If you’re a very light-skin person living in Australia (probably because your ancestors have come there from gloomier places like Ireland and Scotland) then it’s probably a wise choice to not let go of using sunscreen. On the other hand, it seems that vitamin D supplements do nothing for the darker skin people who happen to work in places like Seattle or even Amsterdam (I have a former colleague who used to complain about the latter as always being cloudy).
- democracy 8y ago
  We went to the Gold Coast a few years ago and I got terrible scars (that are still visible) after one hour of just walking around and looking for a bottle shop with no sunscreen on my skin. It definitely hurt my body as well as my holiday plans.

mrfusion 8y ago

I propose mrfusions law: in any discussion of an article with a headline ending in a question, someone will mention Betteridge’s law.

projektfu 8y ago
I find it helpful to know if the answer is no. Betteridge's law suggests you can avoid reading the article because the headline writer is trumping up the findings.
pstuart 8y ago
Nothing personal, but to keep the namespace clean it should probably be the Betteridge Effect.

tom_ 8y ago

The problem is that you aren't interpreting the title literally enough...