Toxic Logic
“Sunscreen usage is climbing, but so are melanoma and skin cancer rates: this, researchers say, is the sunscreen paradox.”
It’s actually worse than it sounds. A study in Canada showed higher skin cancer rates where there was higher sunscreen usage.
You should see them squirming; hiring researchers to follow sunscreen users so they can blame shoddy slip/slop/slap practices on the results, etc.
Having learned the concept of Occam’s Razor as a kid, it would seem to me that the obvious line of research would be to look at the chemical toxicity of sunscreens, especially in UV light, and those of their degradation products.
Avobenzone, octinoxate and oxybenzone: sure these chemicals absorb UV light, but chemically they look pretty nasty and the sort of chemicals that you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy’s skin.
Titanium dioxide, now that’s a known super efficient photocatalyst. Why in the hell would you put that in there? Creating radicals just where you don’t want them.
That’s right, I’m suggesting the solution is the problem. Those UV absorbing chemicals and their degradation products are probably carcinogenic.
Just saying … seems bloody obvious to me.
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