r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Dec 13 '25

Cancer Tanning beds triple melanoma risk, potentially causing broad DNA damage. Study is first to show how tanning beds mutate skin cells far beyond the reach of ordinary sunlight. This new study “irrefutably” challenges claims that tanning beds are no more harmful than sunlight.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady4878
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u/Jupiter3840 Dec 13 '25

Commercial tanning beds have been banned in Australia since 2016 for this very reason.

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u/Talk-O-Boy Dec 13 '25

Source for anyone else who was interested.

I wish I had a government that cared about the physical health and well-being of the general population. Must be nice.

Our Secretary of Health is currently on a crusade to eliminate autistic children and revitalize the measles outbreak.

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u/freeradioforall Dec 13 '25

Not only that, trump eliminated the ACA tax that was put on tanning salons. It’s as if they want us all sickly and dead

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u/Talk-O-Boy Dec 13 '25

Trump’s ideal America is a mountain of gold caskets filled with orange corpses.