7 things you're not supposed to know about sunscreen

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/06/7-surprising-things-youre-not-supposed.html#more

have a look through this article and just say what you think. It came up on someone's facebook yesterday and turned into an 80 comment nightmare which I ducked out of very early, but christ alive what a trainwreck it was. This is one of the most infuriating pieces of internet I've come across in a while.

Yeah, I can't tell if you are infuriated at the FDA or at the quality of the article.

Here's where I could safely dismiss the article and stop reading:

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Any other non-chemical sunscreen ingredients

I am red as a lobster (arms and back mostly) from swimming for hours over two days at the beach of Port Aransas, TX this weekend. My face isn't as bad and coincidentally that's where I put on the most sunscreen. So I dunno, for me it's either:

1. applying loads of sunscreen, regardless of what crap is in it, repeatedly all day

2. wearing more than just trunks when I swim

3. avoiding any coastal outings in anywhere beyond 60 degrees latitude

As a fair-skinned person, it seems you're generally fucked and this article is officially irrelevant to me

nice try, ra

I use natural sunscreen. Made by Badger or something. Works for me, no problems.

eh there's some truth to the article...

his suggestion to eat a nutritionally dense diet is true, and does protect your skin from damage.

kept me from getting burnt many times while everyone around me fried crisp.

say what i think?

okay, this article lacks references or peer review and was written by a scaremongering hack who's about half an inch from LOL VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM.

can they link you to a recipe for an all natural sunscreen? as long as we dont sell it, we are good, no?

  On 6/28/2011 at 3:57 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

can they link you to a recipe for an all natural sunscreen? as long as we dont sell it, we are good, no?

It's a cumbath.

He's talking about a cumbath.

  On 6/28/2011 at 4:24 AM, baph said:

  On 6/28/2011 at 3:57 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

can they link you to a recipe for an all natural sunscreen? as long as we dont sell it, we are good, no?

 

It's a cumbath.

He's talking about a cumbath.

it's rich in cummy goodness. and zinc!

what about an amalgamation of cum and heavy churned buttercream? makes it easier to rub on.

  On 6/28/2011 at 6:03 AM, xxx said:

  On 6/28/2011 at 5:46 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

what about an amalgamation of cum and heavy churned buttercream? makes it easier to rub on.

is it wrong to be hungry after reading this?

not at all. makes a great pie..i feel your pain

pm me when you guys are up to speed on your egyptian sun god knowledge, i had a pretty amazing post on the previous page

This thread infuriates me

activistpost.com, your source for unbiased and well referenced journalism since OMFG FLOURIDE TURNS YOU JEWISH

Very stupid article. Going by the links at the bottom, it's simply trying to sell some "natural" suncreen product - and it's going about it in a pretty disgusting way.

Skin cancer's a subject that hits fairly close to home - my mother suffered from it (and survived, albeit with a cool scar) and with my flawless ivory complexion I'm at risk too. This kind of junk is irresponsible in the extreme.

  On 6/28/2011 at 2:14 AM, KY said:

nice try, ra

zing!

  On 6/28/2011 at 3:51 AM, kaini said:

say what i think?

 

okay, this article lacks references or peer review and was written by a scaremongering hack who's about half an inch from LOL VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM.

Yeah this is pretty much what I thought, I kind of presumed WATMM would spot the glaring errors in this more astutely than facebook hippies.

It's actually worse than lacking references, it has some references all of which are from some similarly terrible natural news website, and quite a few of which do not support the statements they are cited for, which leads me to think the writer of this is not just mislead himself but is purposefully trying to be misleading. And yes indeed this is bad in itself, and it is worse when you are misleading people in a way which is potentially very bad for their health.

Another thing that bothered me was that on a few separate occasions it implies a direct link between the use of chemical names or the unpronounceability of those names and their being carcinogenic. Which is absolutely ridiculous and I don't know how you could write an article and expect to have anyone take you seriously after that.

Surprised lack of ET, yikes or derpspairrant up in here.

  On 6/28/2011 at 11:20 AM, Gbiscuit said:

Surprised lack of ET, yikes or derpspairrant up in here.

whoa come on is that really a fair comparison?

anyways lol at the article saying "ignorant medical community." yeah those fuckin ignorant dermatologists! they can eat a melanoma covered dick.

  On 6/28/2011 at 2:23 PM, disparaissant said:

  On 6/28/2011 at 11:20 AM, Gbiscuit said:

Surprised lack of ET, yikes or derpspairrant up in here.

whoa come on is that really a fair comparison?

 

Yeah, seriously? I've never seen D post any stupid conspiracy bullshit, and I pay attention to stuff like that. Because it's funny.

Also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

i just stay out of the sun if i don't want to get burned. too white

except i am it...

fuck that shit