What if skin cancer was actually caused by sun screen?
Wouldn't that be ironic, don't ya think?
Wouldn't that be ironic, don't ya think?
The benzene and sunblock ingredients aren’t just absorbing into the skin, but into the whole body. The evidence is good that they prevent skin cancer, but…
The evidence on sunblock improving all-cause mortality isn’t clear.
Here’s one study that didn’t find a mortality difference between daily and discretionary sunblock use:
You need to do the risk analysis. Until you do, you can't possibly say it's ironic using sunscreen since it could easily be doing more good than harm.
Anecdotally, my mother died of multiple myeloma, a cancer related to bone marrow and blood, which is often misheard as “melanoma” (but that’s a different cancer). Her oncologist told me her cancer was associated with benzene exposure, but until now I could not imagine how she might have been exposed.
Other possibilities :
A drug that promises to make you feel good that actually makes you feel bad.
A vaccine that promises to cure you that actually makes you ill.
An economic system that promises prosperity while creating poverty.
Food that creates malnourishment.
It's pretty obvious when you think about it. All you need is a bunch of cheap poison and a good marketing campaign.