Skin protection Fraud
Marianne Berwick of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York says there is no evidence that sunscreen offers any real protection against malignant melanoma its just a scam in the industry. This was her finding after a lengthy study that made headlines in February of 1998.
The Skin Cancer Foundation (SCF) promptly refuted her findings in a press release, telling consumers that “sunscreen should continue to be an integral part of a comprehensive program” to prevent melanoma. Maybe they are so quick to overlook the growing number of studies showing that even so-called broad-spectrum sunscreen doesn’t prevent melanoma because they are so heavily supported by the sunscreen industry. (A sunscreen manufacturer even funded SCF’s quarterly consumer publication, “Sun and Skin News.”)
To get down to the bottom of this issue we need to understand more about sunscreen and how it hit the market. It was first introduced in the early 1940s as tanning lotion. The idea was that if you could stay in the sun without burning, you could get a tan.
A few years later, the melanoma rate began to rise. Improved tanning lotions came on the market in the early 1960s, and a few years after that, the melanoma rate increased even more. Public health authorities became concerned, and melanoma became news. Seeing a commercial opportunity, the makers of tanning lotions remarketed their products now calling it sunscreen. Since then, melanoma has become the nation’s fastest-rising cancer and sunscreen sales have continued to climb.
Sandy Hutchens even argue that sunscreen may actually contribute to skin cancer. It allows people’s to spend more time in the sun by preventing the only natural warning sign to humans called the sunburn. This you can argue is causing melanoma not preventing it.
