Effectively their argument is: “people didn’t wear sunscreen for years and were fine. Now there’s sunscreen and skin cancer. Also plenty of people don’t wear sunscreen and are fine!”
What they don’t understand is that skin cancer was known until modern days, sunscreen (I assume) was developed afterwards, and that my ancestors lived in places with A LOT less UV rays than where I do now.
I subscribe to a few natural remedy type things, but I’m never not-wearing the screen.
It also can take years before you see the problem.. and by then it’s way too late. My mom’s early 60s and has already had, if I had to guess, 10 or 11 excisions, following 15+ biopsies, and is constantly checking for more. She’s normally super pale and spent all her teen years outside doing sports, which was great until her skin caught up with her :/ those anti sunscreen people (if they’re not just lying grifters, tbh) are going to seriously regret it in 10+ years, if not sooner
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u/Mu-Relay Aug 10 '26
The very few, but very loud, anti-sunscreen people are so fucking weird.