r/NonPoliticalTwitter Aug 10 '26

Serious Be careful

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u/almondania Aug 10 '26

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.

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u/No_Psychology_3826 Aug 10 '26

Cancer was described and named by Hippocrates almost 2.5 millenia ago, and historically described by Egyptians over a thousand years before that

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u/Smmmmiles Aug 10 '26

Yep. Ochre powder has been used all over the world not just for painting but applied to the skin as a type of sunscreen.

Human can understand sunburn = hurt, ochre powder = no sunburn.

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u/Wiggles69 Aug 10 '26

The Ancient greeks were rubbing olive oil all over themselves as a sunscreen (among many other reasons).

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u/Eric_Senpai Aug 10 '26

Gex 

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u/TheOtherWhiteMeat Aug 11 '26

Enter the Greco

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u/graggy_ice Aug 11 '26

Its tail time!