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Sunscreen Not So Good for You?

Posted by timothy on from the shibboleth-busters dept.

j-beda writes "Don't like sunscreen? Maybe that tan is good for you. It looks like people are rethinking the common wisdom of avoiding sun exposure... "research suggests that vitamin D might help prevent 30 deaths for each one caused by skin cancer". Maybe if Kurt Vonnegut ever does address MIT grads, he will say something else..."

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  1. Re:Common sense by Des+Herriott · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    When I see some chick whose main goal in life is to roast, the only impression it leaves on me is that of a pathetic, self-concious, insecure superficial prat

    Too right. Not to mention the fact that by the time she's 30, she'll have the skin of a 50-year old. Assuming she hasn't died of a malignant melanoma or some such beforehand.