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ICB: If I could offer you only one tip for the future…

09 Feb 12:45pm

Filed under: Health, I Call Bullshit, Icb, Nanoparticles, Science, Sunscreen

Welcome to this week’s I Call Bullshit, an irregular regular column on calumny and codswallop. This week we’re looking at why so many Australians are choosing the risk of melanoma over the risk of… something ill defined.

According to the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education there’s a proportion of people who – because they’ve heard about concerns over the use of nanoparticles in sunscreen – think it’s safer not to use it at all.

To stop people getting the 80s ‘zinc’ look, some sunscreen manufacturers break the zinc particles down into nanoparticles, or teeny tiny bits. See here for a much more erudite explanation.

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marley says:

01:24pm | 11/02/12

@badrinath - can’t argue with you there. There’s a lot of “common knowledge” out there that isn’t knowledge at all, a lot of dodgy science, and a lot of marketing. My bugbear is the “natural products” industry touting the dangers of science while that claiming its own products, never tested… Read more »
Badrinath says:

08:39am | 11/02/12

Fair call Marley, I was missing that point, if the suggestion is to tell people which sunscreens don’t have nano-particles so that those who wish to be cautious can do so without risk - fantastic. The same I guess for other innovations that irk some people such as GM and… Read more »

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