Sunscreen Misinformation Spreads Online

Sunday, July 07, 2024

"It was not like this before," Dr. Jeanine Downie, a board-certified dermatologist with her own practice in New Jersey told CBS News Confirmed. "I see easily six patients per week that are anti-sunscreen, where it used to be maybe one every other week or one a month. And now it's just gotten crazy."

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This movement picked up steam in June, with creators on TikTok telling followers in no uncertain terms "stop wearing sunscreen."

Lol! I love it! TikTok, the touchstone for all knowledge, whether it be political or scientific.

"TikTok's search engine repeatedly delivers misinformation to its majority-young user base, report says" www.cnn.com

#1 | Posted by censored at 2024-07-07 12:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"I see easily six patients per week that are anti-sunscreen, where it used to be maybe one every other week or one a month. And now it's just gotten crazy."

An individual's freedom of speech is not a good enough reason to tolerate mass media dissemination of harmful propaganda.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-07-07 03:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Sunscreen with zinc and, even then, limited exposure. Don't wanna do it? The effects are cumulative, developing over years, and they can be very nasty, with literally life-threatening surprises.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-07-08 05:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

The Internet has helped us, and has ruined us

#4 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-07-08 07:15 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I wear a facial sunscreen every day. Helps with the dry skin on my nose, and protects against aging

#5 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-07-08 07:18 AM | Reply

I tried that, but I continued to get older

#6 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2024-07-08 07:24 AM | Reply | Funny: 4

Days gone by (one hopes) some oldtime cowboys in AZ would every so often lop off another bit of ear to keep up with the on-the-march sun damage they took in their jobs, even with those big, broad-brimmed hats.

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-07-08 07:41 AM | Reply

This is why tiktok needs to be banned. The chinese can just give americans cancer en masse by spreading anti science propaganda on tiktok.

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-07-08 01:13 PM | Reply

An individual's freedom of speech is not a good enough reason to tolerate mass media dissemination of harmful propaganda.

#3 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2024-07-07 03:45 PM | REPLY | FLAG:

As Pearl Jam would say, "it's evolution baby."

Just thinning the herd.

#9 | Posted by zeropointnrg at 2024-07-09 09:58 AM | Reply

"It's horse paste!" (old man shakes fist)

#10 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-07-09 01:46 PM | Reply