Sunscreen Not So Good for You?

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..."

yeah, really nice...

[Maavin]

I'm a vampire, you insensitive clod !

Ah

[ScribeOfTheNile]

Ah, so not only tanning makes you look cool, it saves you from dying? Yet another great reason to give in to peer-pressure! o:)

Thats nice, but ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Could this open some eyes and increase interest in alternative (shade, clothes) offerings?

In other news...

[de Bois-Guilbert]

...leading scientist say that while drinking four to five glasses of water a day is quite healthy, walking around with the garden hose duct-taped to your mouth may cause serious harm.

Re:yeah, really nice...

[Anonymous Coward]

it's really cool, how the second post ist modded 'redundant'

Re:Kurt Vonnegut

[_Shorty-dammit]

which is why the post says *if he ever does* give a commencement address there... You're right, at least according to this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut [wikipedia.org]

Two Lessons

[CleverNickedName]

If science has taught us anything it's that:
1) Everything in moderation.
2) Research causes cancer in lab-rats.

Whats the current score?

[t_allardyce]

Ok im a little behind this year so correct me:

Cell Phones: not dangerous
Salmon: ok
Sudan-1: bad
Power lines: definately bad
Condoms: dont have holes
Beef: depends on country
Sunscreen: bad?
Lead piping: ok now?
GM food: border-line
Torture: 'acceptable in some situations'
Violent video games: leads to violent people
Flares: out
Mullets: out
Ironic Mullets: in but slipping

Oohh yeah, depends on where you live

[hyfe]

On the same note; in Norway it doesn't matter much if you use sunscreen or not..

.. the 5 layers of clothes you have to wear to stop from freezing to death usually block the sun quite nicely.

It burns! It burns!

[EvilMonkeySlayer]

But the light, oh god it burns! It burns!

They made me do it

[CmdrGravy]

I live in the UK, you insensitive clod.

Re:Bullshit Health "Science"

[TheKnave]

Since they still can't decide whether butter is better for you than margarine I'm inclined to agree.

Re:Kurt Vonnegut

[Scarblac]

That's exactly what the link he gives in his submission explains, duh.

Re:Common sense

[Max Romantschuk]

You assume that all people naturally can withstand 15 minutes. I burn after 5, and I live in Michigan.

All normal people can withstand 15 minutes. If you burn after five you're hypersensitive to the sun, and probably aware that you are.

I'm lactose intolerant, and I know that even though milk is good for you it's not good for me. (Fortunately there's lactose-free milk nowadays.)

Now, the proper way to comment on something like this:
I burn after 5 minutes in the sun, YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!

Lewis Black called it!

[Manhigh]

"You're gonna to your doctor in about 10 years...

'Your cholesterol is out of control, what have you been doing?'

'I dont know, I've been eating right, running, doing everything right...'

'Yeah, but have you been using sunblock?'

'Well, yeah'

'Whats the matter with you!? You should know better'"

Re:Kurt Vonnegut

[Anonymous Coward]

The original column was by Mary Smich of the Chicago Tribune.

Re:Depends where you live

[ceeam]

I'm Australian, but haven't lived there for almost 20 years .. and I have to say that every time I go back to visit, it just seems like the sun gets hotter and hotter, and stings more and more, each year.

You are obviously lying, thanks to modern research done mostly in US we all know that there is no global warming and ozone layer holes is just tree-huggers' paranoia.

Re:Whats the current score?

[cybersaga]

Condoms: dont have holes

Actually, condoms have one hole. It's if they have more that you're in trouble.

Re:yeah, really nice...

[coolfrood]

I'm a BLACK geek, you insensitive clod!

Sunscreen made me ill...

[OwlWhacker]

I only drank a small amount, but it made me sick, and I got a tan.

Why is this on Slashdot?

[Khuffie]

We're nerds! We don't go out into the sun! Its hard to see our laptop screens from the damned glare!

Man is like no other animal

[fireboy1919]

Unnatural, isn't it?

Personally, I don't do anything unnatural to my food. No other animal cooks their food, so I don't cook anything I eat, or eat anything that I didn't pull from the ground or kill with my bare hands.
Also, I eat it without utensils, since no other animal does that, and I don't prepare anything I eat - I just pull whatever I want from the carcass right there. My backyard is starting to stink a lot, since I don't bury anything I kill since animals don't.

It's healthier because animals do it that way.

Lewis Black, "White Album", Track 3

[IronChefMorimoto]

If you can find a ripped MP3 of his 2000 comedy album, this story will make more sense:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 04U4ST/ref=m_art_li_3/102-6655619-6516961?v=glance &s=music [amazon.com]

Track 3 -- The Ozone, Sunblock, The Flu and NYQUIL.

Enjoy!

IronChefMorimoto

Re:The dose makes the poison

[Anonymous Coward]

Too much water will kill you (it upsets your body's fluid balance)

Not to mention the fact that you drown...

Re:Common sense

[dotpl]

They tried it on a Lion.
The results weren't that good:

The Problem with Popplers [gotfuturama.com]

Re:Uhm

[Neward Rylet]

Like most accounts of the Dresden bombing, the witness becomes unstuck in time, travels to the planet Tralfamadore, and watches his own murder by a laser in Chicago in 1976.

Re:Women Had Used Baby Oil!

[Bob-o-Matic!]

I wonder what just how much oil J&J can extract from the average baby... Also what kind of apparatus is used.

Can you cook with it? What is the smoking point? Does it go rancid quickly like other animal fats? How about saturated fat content?

Would the fast food industry use this without our knowledge?

What about new cars? Could your motor benefit from baby oil for the first several hundred miles?

Adult humans NEED dairy products.

[raehl]

If you don't consume dairy, you'll go insane.

Every vegan I've ever met has been some degree of crazy. The less dairy they were willing to eat the crazier they were. Drink milk, stay sane.

Re:so you're the scientific authority?

[Breakfast Pants]

Well I have another example of uniquely human behavior: filming a fake documentary on another species in which you make that species appear to commit suicide in the wild. I bet no lemmings ever did that (in addition to never commiting suicide).

Sunblock

[crutchman]

"Have you ever looked at the ingredients in sunblock? I have never seen those ingredients anywhere. You have no idea what you are putting on your face....Oh oh oh the Sun's out...It could be Zebra Cum, you don't know...you may not like that joke, but you don't know" - Lewis Black [lewisblack.net], The White Album