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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When the sun is out, reaching for a bottle of
sunscreen is a no brainer for most people, but apparently
not for everyone. Just ask doctor Abigail Waldman. She's the
director of Moe's Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and
she likes to post on social media about the importance
of sunscreen.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I get very opinionated comments about how it is poison,
how it's going to cause skin cancer, how I'm sort
of bought by the pharmacy industry to post things like this.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
She's not, and sunscreen is also a key form of
defense against the most dangerous skin cancers. But these conspiracies
still have plenty of fuel to their fires, motivated by
some places banning certain types or cherry picking studies.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
It's sort of like little snippets of science that then have.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Just been kind of applied to the entire bracket of sunscreen.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio
When the sun is out, reaching for a bottle of
sunscreen is a no brainer for most people, but apparently
not for everyone. Just ask doctor Abigail Waldman. She's the
director of Moe's Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and
she likes to post on social media about the importance
of sunscreen.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I get very opinionated comments about how it is poison,
how it's going to cause skin cancer, how I'm sort
of bought by the pharmacy industry to post things like this.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
She's not, and sunscreen is also a key form of
defense against the most dangerous skin cancers. But these conspiracies
still have plenty of fuel to their fires, motivated by
some places banning certain types or cherry picking studies.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
It's sort of like little snippets of science that then have.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Just been kind of applied to the entire bracket of sunscreen.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio
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