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Piece in the last Delayed Gratification about sunbeds and skin cancer:

- Rates on melanoma (the dangerous form) are significantly on the increase - Cancer Research UK states there will be nearly 21,000 cases in the UK, claiming 44 lives per week - up 33%in the last five years.

- WHO says that globally, the incidence has increased by 50% in the last decade (to 280k - and is projected to top half a million by 2040.

- 90% of cases caused by overexposure to UV.

- According to the Skin Cancer Foundation in the US, more people get skin cancer from sun bed usage than get lung cancer from smoking.

- The UV output from sunbeds can be 15 times higher than the peak you get from the sun, and is banned for the under 18s.

- From Melanoma Focus (a UK charity) 28% of UK adults use a sunbed (in Belfast it's 37%). From those between 18 and 25, this rises to 43 %.

- In 2009, the WHO classed the UN emitted by tanning beds as carcinogenic, and put it in the highest category, along with asbestos and tobacco.


So surely the big question is: why?

Oh, and it's estimated that the £67M raised in VAT on sunscreen would save the NHS £128M if removed, through greater usage.
 
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Jasonovich

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Did you know Prince Andrew will spend Christmas Day all alone, other than his Ming Spies!
I believe that was last Christmas but .....

This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special (special)

Sorry George.

This year; Fergy is staying over.
Don't mention toes or Epstein Island! :ROFLMAO:
 
@GSV Ethics Gradient

I don’t know if you have an X/Twitter account but, Prof Jim Al-Khalili has reposted a very interesting thread about a new theory/findings, which could prove the Dark Energy theory of the Universe is completely wrong. View: https://x.com/jimalkhalili/status/1871118468822794708
I'm not a twitterer, so no - it's clearly something that we do not yet understand. I'll be keeping my eye out for anything in Science Focus or The Sky at Night magazines.
 
@GSV Ethics Gradient

I don’t know if you have an X/Twitter account but, Prof Jim Al-Khalili has reposted a very interesting thread about a new theory/findings, which could prove the Dark Energy theory of the Universe is completely wrong. View: https://x.com/jimalkhalili/status/1871118468822794708
I've not long finished reading a book about the grey areas in physics - where there's tantalising evidence that there may be flaws in the standard model, and which might hint and things that might be paths into greater understanding thereof. Can't pretend to have entirely understood it all, but the one big lesson that shone out is that it takes a lot of verifiable evidence to be genuinely convincing, and that without releasing your methodology there's a lot that can be wrong. It'd be great if that were not the case here, but if may be just another case of publishing research that might not stand the test of peer review.

Who knows? Not me, that's for sure...
 

Friesiansam

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I've not long finished reading a book about the grey areas in physics - where there's tantalising evidence that there may be flaws in the standard model, and which might hint and things that might be paths into greater understanding thereof. Can't pretend to have entirely understood it all, but the one big lesson that shone out is that it takes a lot of verifiable evidence to be genuinely convincing, and that without releasing your methodology there's a lot that can be wrong. It'd be great if that were not the case here, but if may be just another case of publishing research that might not stand the test of peer review.

Who knows? Not me, that's for sure...
I’m sure there’s many things we can just never know. Such as, is Big Bang, universe expansion and eventual collapse, an ongoing cycle? If it is, how did it start? Where did the vast amount of matter come from?

Just for starters…
 
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Did you know Jeff Bezos of Amazon is getting married today? The bride is expected to turn up some time between 2pm and 5pm, while the wedding photographer will take a picture of her on the church doorstep as proof.
Quite possibly in the near future the bride will be RMA 'd but bride forfeits alimony because she peeled the warranty label from Bezo's forehead.
 

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