[seattle_spring]

Can you provide some peer reviewed sources for your claims? Your whole comment reads like that thoroughly debunked "scientists blow the lid off of sunscreen" [1] article that was going around a few years back.

[1] https://millerfamilydermatology.com/sunscreen-myth/

[gojomo]

Here's a good recent overview of reasons to doubt the efficacy of sunscreen against fatal skin cancers:

https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...

(Most recently discussed on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23086211)

Similar doubts have existed for decades – here's a 1993 variant reporting some of the trends that already didn't add up, back then: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1993/05/melanoma-sunscr...

Another branch reply provides more sources about sunscreen chemicals & sun-longevity correlations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27520144