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I'll take skin cancer over colon cancer any day, given it's generally the least severe.

astrange 4y ago
Skin cancer is associated with good health, because to get it you need a healthy lifestyle where you're outside a lot, and you're probably older, and most kinds of it are benign. There is some evidence that sunscreen is bad for you. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23086211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23086211 And of course, it gives your kids autism if you're a mother living too far north.
- Broken_Hippo 4y ago
  ...because to get it you need a healthy lifestyle where you're outside a lot, and you're probably older, and most kinds of it are benign. This simply isn't true. You can get lots of sun exposure simply by sitting in your backyard or balcony. You can get it sitting at sports games. Or lying on the beach. Or being a delivery driver. Folks with limited mobility can still get plenty of sun. Sun exposure doesn't mean you are active at all. Skin cancer is simply more common in older folks, but lots of younger folks get it. IIRC, skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in young folks, especially women. I'm pretty sure that sunscreen has not been proven to cause autism. I do live pretty far north, and absolutely no one is being warned about such a thing. I cannot imagine Norway allowing sunscreen sales if they honestly thought it caused autism - they'd at least tell pregnant folks to avoid sun for a few months. Also, many people here are fair skinned and not having sunscreen would mean that sunburns would be more severe.
  - astrange 4y ago
    Did you read the article I linked? > I'm pretty sure that sunscreen has not been proven to cause autism. Is joke. But - low Vitamin D in Swedish immigrant mothers is associated with autism in their children: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4396835/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4396835/

Skin cancer is associated with good health, because to get it you need a healthy lifestyle where you're outside a lot, and you're probably older, and most kinds of it are benign. There is some evidence that sunscreen is bad for you. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23086211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23086211 And of course, it gives your kids autism if you're a mother living too far north.

Broken_Hippo 4y ago
...because to get it you need a healthy lifestyle where you're outside a lot, and you're probably older, and most kinds of it are benign. This simply isn't true. You can get lots of sun exposure simply by sitting in your backyard or balcony. You can get it sitting at sports games. Or lying on the beach. Or being a delivery driver. Folks with limited mobility can still get plenty of sun. Sun exposure doesn't mean you are active at all. Skin cancer is simply more common in older folks, but lots of younger folks get it. IIRC, skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in young folks, especially women. I'm pretty sure that sunscreen has not been proven to cause autism. I do live pretty far north, and absolutely no one is being warned about such a thing. I cannot imagine Norway allowing sunscreen sales if they honestly thought it caused autism - they'd at least tell pregnant folks to avoid sun for a few months. Also, many people here are fair skinned and not having sunscreen would mean that sunburns would be more severe.
- astrange 4y ago
  Did you read the article I linked? > I'm pretty sure that sunscreen has not been proven to cause autism. Is joke. But - low Vitamin D in Swedish immigrant mothers is associated with autism in their children: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4396835/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4396835/