Sigh.
I imagine more than a few of these suncreen truthers are the parents that feed their kids bleach. At that point, imho, the child's rights outweigh the parents' right to control their offspring.
You can only help children up to legal bounds. If their parents aren't making good choices for them, but parents aren't breaking the law, there is nothing else you can do. Some parents are doing their best, some parents are doing the bare minimum, some parents are actively malicious. Again, all you can do is provide the support you're legally able to until kids hit age of maturity and make better choices for themselves. If parents step out of the boundaries of the law and/or are actively hurting/harming their kids, absolutely, intervene with whatever options are available. This is a tricky dance in my experience. You can just as easily have parents come at you civilly, criminally, or with physical violence because you've dared attempt to interfere with what they consider their property. Once a child is emancipated or reaches age of maturity, you can provide any and all resources to assist them without parental interference (housing, workforce, healthcare, etc to reach self sufficiency escape velocity).
I know misinformation existed before short form video, but the rate at which garbage content about otherwise benign topics can be spit out and regurgitated cannot be understated.
If you watch one video about the dangers of sunscreen, the algorithm can feed you 30 more in just minutes. This is a speed of content humans simply cannot handle. Whether you realize it or not, you'll be given a false sense of social proof and consensus that no amount of fact checking later can deprogram.
It's not just crazy opinions about politics or vaccines or sunscreen. Multiple people at a time in my circle will go off at the same time about seatbelts. Or aspartame. Or eating more liver. Or the importance of moon cycles.
The winning candidate so far is social media.
How can something so new be suddenly a necessity, that if you fail to use every day you will get a skin cancer?
I understand for example that antibiotics are also new and really helpful, but was skin cancer a problem in our pre-history, or pre 1938 history?
Is it caused by ozon layer destruction? Global warming? What is the reason we suddenly need sunscreen?
(Genuinly asking, not trying to take a stand)
"Melanoma rates in the United States have been rising rapidly over the past 30 years — doubling from 1982 to 2011 — but trends within the past decade vary by age. (1,6,10,11) There has been a 31.5% increase between 2011 and 2019. (12)" [0]
it doesn't make any sense for me.
The only reason could be a "terrain theory" - where a ill bodies (bad terrain) (caused by diet, sedentary lifestyle etc) is more prone to illness all over the body. So with bad terrain it might make sense that we suddenly need to use sunscreen, because we are more prone for skin cancer.
bell-cot•6mo ago
Successful or not, it'd be extremely interesting to see the reactions.