Reply #80: well that was just incoherent

[iverglas]

That link, and your cryptic comment. But I'm glad you found it entertaining. The ability to amuse one's self is important.

"I'll happily show you how, no matter how many people use sun screen, no matter how religiously, skin cancer deaths will go up."
Can you show me?

Indeed I can. Whether I feel like bothering to do something in response to a request (if that is a request) that I find utterly disingenuous is another matter.

Can you show me that the moon is not made of green cheese? Wanna do it?

But what the hell.

http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1028043646.html

Easy to Avoid and Usually Treatable

Skin cancer is largely preventable, simply by avoiding sun and sunlamp exposure. Yet the number of skin cancer cases keeps growing. The American Cancer Society says that since 1973, the incidence rate of melanoma has increased about 4% every year. As recently as 1995, the ACS reported approximately 800,000 new cases of non-melanoma skin cancer. In 2001, that number had risen to more than 1 million new cases.

The incidence of malignant melanomas is also increasing: in 1995 the ACS predicted about 34,100 new cases. In 2001, that number had risen to 51,400. This year, the number of new of malignant melanoma cases is expected to reach 53,600.

David Allen, MD, chief dermatology resident at the Medical College of Wisconsin, notes: “In the 1930s, only 1 American in 1,500 developed invasive melanoma every year. By 1960, it had risen to 1 in 600. Today, it’s 1 in 66.” The National Cancer Institute now estimates that 1 out of 7 people in the United States will develop some form of skin cancer in their lifetime.

Quib as many quibbles as you might like, but skin cancer deaths will increase no matter how many people use sun screen, no matter how religiously.

Sun screen alone will not prevent skin cancer deaths. Avoidance of exposure and early detection and treatment are essential, as is a reduction of activities that destroy atmospheric protection, if there is to be no increase in skin cancer deaths. And those things are not happening to an extent sufficient to counteract rising numbers of fatal skin cancers.

My father died of metastacized melanoma last year, btw.

Now, prove to me that the earth is not made of green cheese.