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by jodrellblank 29 days ago
Photo claiming to be a 92 year old woman who used suncream on her face, but not her neck, for 40 years:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ITlo7TAy_Hs/maxresdefault.jpg

(She also appears to have Frank's Sign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%27s_sign )

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and then staying in the sun too long, over and over again.

Don’t forget that step.

I see no mention of that in the picture I linked for me to have 'forgotten'? Or in the longer article where it appears: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jdv.17660

That seems to be something you have 'hallucinated'?

You think that happened to her from a single exposure?

A handful of exposures?

She looks like a football! Who’s hallucinating?

92 years is 33,000 days of being alive, that's plenty of time to rack up damage without doing anything for "too long".

If she had tooth decay or dentures would you say she must have been "chewing for too long"?

Chewing bacteria and or acid for too long, yeah. Like most people.

It’s easy to explain away degenerative effects as primarily age-related - until you look at healthy old people.

About whom the model just says “statistical outlier” and moves on.