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"This summer, like many before, a lot of people won’t wear sunblock. The
difference you might notice this year is just how many are proudly posting
about it.
James Middleton is a fitness coach in the U.K., with a wellness brand that
reaches about a quarter of a million people on Instagram. While impressive in
its own way, this makes him neither a dermatologist nor an oncologist. But on
Twitter last month, Middleton urged followers to dispense with sunscreen,
arguing that the vitamin D produced by the human body when exposed to sunlight
“make it almost impossible to develop an autoimmune disease.” (That sounds like
hyperbole because it is; the benefits of vitamin D supplements are often
overstated.)
“Think about it for a minute,” Middleton wrote. “They [pharmaceutical and
health care companies] need you to believe that the sun is bad.” He included a
pair of images from a TikTok video that made a similar point, suggesting that
corporate interests have invented the myth of “dangerous” ultraviolet radiation
from the sun in order to sell you a product — in this case, topical creams and
sprays that prevent sunburn and skin cancer — that you don’t really need. It’s
all a scam! Go forth and sizzle to a crisp!"
Via Christoph S.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
