In case this was still in question.....

[Abstract]

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=525533

Doctors have long expressed concern about the steadily growing rate in Canada and elsewhere of melanoma, the deadly skin cancer whose major cause is contact with UV rays.

Yet the Joint Canadian Tanning Association suggests that experts have exaggerated the need to protect against the sun or avoid artificial ultraviolet light.

"I think the message has got so extreme," Doug McNabb, the organization's president, said in an interview.

"There is pure abstinence messaging, which to me, biologically can't make sense. We only moved indoors in the last 120 years. [Before that] the entire race was outdoors."

Dermatologists, however, dismiss the tanning business's counter-offensive, saying it ignores well-established connections between skin cancer and UV exposure generally, as well as evidence that tanning-salon use specifically makes people more likely to get cancer.

Um....right.

Anyway, have a nice summer and wear your sunscreen.

 

[bartelby]

The last 120 years?

Huh?

 

[Mousse]

The last 120 years?

Huh?

Yep. That was when Air Conditioning was invented. Give or take a decade...

In the early 19th century Michael Faraday discovered that by compressing and liquifying certain gases, he could lower the temperature of the surrounding air.

In the 1840's Dr. John Gorrie used Faraday's idea of compression to produce ice which he used to cool down malaria patients. He thought it he could use the same technology to cool buildings. It didn't pan out.

In 1902, Willis Carrier (like the A/C brand) invented the first electric air conditioner.

So there you have it. We didn't move indoors until we had reliable air conditioning--one hundred and six years ago.

 

[iJohnHenry]

Yeah, and before that the serfs died in their 30's. Without a doubt, some from skin cancer, especially when the melanoma spreads to other parts of the body, which it is wont to do.

What was his point again??

Oh, and the Canadian Cancer Society will take their money, but will never allow them be a sponsor.

 

[Abstract]

Us Canadians lived in the forests and igloos until 120 years ago.

 

[iJohnHenry]

Last week for me.

Good to get out, and stretch my long legs.