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The Rabbit Hole: Conspiracy Theories

Sunscreen

The Rabbit Hole: Conspiracy Theories

Danielle Mercy

Society & Culture, History

4.1689 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Have you ever wondered what people did before sunscreen? Were they just sun burnt all the time? Did they all die from skin cancer? Follow me down the rabbit hole about sunscreen. Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/rabbit-hole/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rabbitholeconspiracy Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jcwvgWpPz8GqLxNwpeJM7AHqBJL2O3JWVdE8ggKK7_8/edit?usp=sharing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Have you ever wondered what people did before sunscreen? Were they all just sunburn all the time?

0:35.6

Did they all die from skin cancer?

0:38.1

Follow me down the rabbit hole to find out.

1:05.4

Music Hello, friends. Welcome back to the rabbit hole. As promised, this week we're talking about sunscreen because it's getting nice outside. And I don't know, like you gonna you're gonna go outside you're going to

1:12.6

sunburn right we all do it every single summer we go outside you get a nice solid like first

1:18.0

sunburn everybody's like oh yeah first sunburn the year right um and everyone's always hounding

1:23.2

sunscreen sunscreen sunscreen but is sunscreen like absolutely necessary? I don't know.

1:31.2

I mean, there absolutely are some benefits that we don't get sunburned if we put on sunscreen.

1:38.1

But like, why are we getting sunburned? Because like for years and years and years, our ancestors forever and ever,

1:46.3

they didn't wear sunscreen. And in fact, I have the history of sunscreen. It wasn't really,

1:52.2

like, fully introduced into the U.S. until, let's see here, like, 1944. We'll go over the whole history in just a second. But you know what I'm saying?

2:02.8

Like, that's pretty, that's relatively new. Less than 100 years old is the sunscreen.

2:09.2

So how come before 100 years ago we didn't need sunscreen when we were outside more? In fact, we were outside so much more. And now all of a

2:19.9

sudden we're inside all the time and we only go outside every now and then and we get sunburnt when we

2:25.0

go outside. Well, don't you worry because I'm here to tell you all about it. Let's start with the

2:30.3

history of sunscreen, right? So ultraviolet rays or UV rays were discovered by a German

2:36.0

scientist in 1801. That's, that's decent time ago, right? In 1932, so over 100 years later,

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