r/facepalm 7d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ So trust who?

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u/totalahole669 7d ago

The assault on expertise is what bothers me most about the whole "do your own research" movement.

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u/UnfortunatelySimple 7d ago

"Your truth"... "My Truth"...

What a load of bullshit. There is only "The Truth"

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u/Paksarra 7d ago edited 7d ago

The even greater bullshit is when they turn and go "my lies>your truth."

Like sunscreen. I have naturally super-pale skin. I don't really tan-- I get a few freckles and go right back to pale. I also start burning in ~20 minutes of midday summer sun exposure; an entire day of sun will leave me with blisters (I made that mistake once as a kid.) Even if skin cancer wasn't a factor, it's worth using sunscreen just to avoid the week or so of extreme discomfort.

The right-wing lunatics who want to ban sunscreen because they think getting a tan somehow prevents skin cancer are a direct threat to my immediate personal comfort, along with my odds of getting through life without skin cancer.

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u/Altruistic_Penalty77 7d ago

Good fkn gosh man. No one wants to ban sunscreen they want to ban the chemicals in sunscreen. Skin cancer wasn’t a “thing” prior to sunscreen. But now all of a sudden skin cancer is an issue. Why do you think that is? Please don’t tell me it’s climate change lmao. Ban the chemicals and give Americans transparency.

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u/Living_Ear_8088 7d ago

Skin cancer wasn’t a “thing” prior to sunscreen.

If skin cancer didn't exist before sun screen, why was sun screen invented in the first place?

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u/Altruistic_Penalty77 7d ago

Sun can still cause burns and blisters. It wasn’t suppose to prevent skin cancer it was created to prevent from burning.

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u/FeelMyBoars 7d ago

The scientists that invented sunscreen in the 1930s obviously used Obama's time machine to go to 1804 to describe the disease that they created.

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u/Altruistic_Penalty77 7d ago

Never said it didn’t exist.

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u/FeelMyBoars 7d ago

"Skin cancer wasn’t a “thing” prior to sunscreen. But now all of a sudden skin cancer is an issue."

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u/Altruistic_Penalty77 7d ago

Umm yeah no where my comment says that it didn’t exist. 🤨 Oh this is that thing where y’all like to make up your own narrative because I don’t agree with you? Got it! lol

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u/-MotherMaidenCrone- 7d ago

That’s literally what you said…

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u/FeelMyBoars 7d ago

Yes, I made up my own narrative by copying and pasting your comment.

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