“Stop wearing sunscreen,” says a TikTok influencer with 1.6 million followers and 36 million likes.
“The sun does not cause skin cancer,” insists a TikTok pundit with 76,000 followers in a post that has been bookmarked nearly 4,000 times.
“Vitamin D can still be generated when you’re wearing sunscreen,” Andrews said.
“Since sunscreen came out, the rise of skin cancer has only gone up and up,” says one TikTok influencer.
So the driving force is exposure years and years ago, not the increased use of sunscreen today.”Many social media posters use a nugget of truth and then twist it, experts say.
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Organizations:
CNN, Skin Cancer Foundation, Yale School of Medicine, US Centers for Disease Control, Environmental, Yale Cancer Center, Social
Locations:
New Haven , Connecticut, melanomas