If your suntan oil can change the sex of fish, what can it do to you?

[donsu]

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article340237.ece

If your suntan oil can change the sex of fish, what can do it to you?
The stuff is not only on our skin: it's in our tap water and lunches too




Spare a thought for the male hornyhead turbot. For despite its name, it is changing gender. And the sunscreens that symbolise bronzed sex appeal may be partly to blame.

Scientists have found that male hornyhead turbot and English sole, feeding near sewage outfalls on the Californian coast, are being feminised - and a chemical found in sunscreens is the likely culprit.

(you have to pay a pound to read the rest of the article)

didn't this info come up last year too?

I guess, if tested at all US sewage outfalls the same thing is happening?

[Ksec]

1. OMG dont tell me that. I worship the sun.

I fry myself every summer and usually buy suntan lotion by the keg... Thanks for killing one of my many vices. :)

[Squatch]

2. Thank God I'm not a fish!

[donsu]

4. how many steps up the species ladder do you think you are?

you think those steps keep you safe?

[Squatch]

6. Quit fear mongering.

Fear mongererer..er

[wtbymark]

3. must be a cousin to the Horned Dace

carp species

[Stephanie]

5. The article is here for free >

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/sunscreen-blamed-for-genderbender-effect-on-fish/2006/01/27/1138319450889.html#

[donsu]

7. thanks for this - article never did talk about "lunches"

nt

[Ksec]

8. Oh its sunscreen...

Nevermind that then, sunscreen interferes with my frying so I dont touch the stuff. (George Hamilton is my hero)

Better to die enjoying ones self than live hating what you do. (just made that up, pretty good if I dont say so myself)

[moriverrat]

9. Sunscreen May Actually be Causing Skin Cancer

http://www.realhealthnews.com/dailydose/dd200311/dd20031128.html

Sunscreen May Actually be Causing Skin Cancer

UV "baking beds" prove to be the first step toward the
crematorium...

If you've been with me for any length of time at all, you
already know how I feel about conventional medicine's twisted
take on skin cancers - and sunscreen. Why, in just the last 4 or
5 months worth of Daily Doses, I've told you about how:

A DEFICIENCY - not an excess - of full-spectrum sunlight is
what's clearly linked to melanoma (Daily Dose, 7/8)...

Sunscreen may actually be CAUSING skin cancer, if the latest
statistics and case studies are any indication (Daily Dose,
7/15)...

The media intentionally misrepresents skin cancer's prevalence
by lumping together the relatively rare malignant melanoma (NOT
sun-caused) and the common, easily cured basal-cell cancer -
which also isn't PROVEN to be caused by sunlight exposure (Daily
Dose, 7/11)...

But the latest twist in the sunlight/cancer saga hits close to
home for all those "sky-is-falling" helio-phobes (sun haters) in
the mainstream: It turns out that artificial tanning - the same
UV technology the sun-averse bake under to AVOID the "dangers"
of natural sunlight - has now been proven to dramatically
increase the risk of the most deadly and difficult to treat of
skin cancers, malignant melanoma...........................

[CAcyclist]

10. Real Bullshit

Th reason that people who wear sunscreen get more cancer is because they are in the sun more than people who don't wear sunscreen. The average person in the US only spends five minutes outdoors. Most people who are outdoor people like me apply sunscreen once and then forget to reapply it even though the person is outdoors for hours. After 15 minutes, most sunscreen is washed off.

These articles ignore the other very large category of sun-induced cancer - squamous cell carcinoma. And malignant melanoma is hardly relatively rare - amelanotic malignant melanoma*is* relatively rare and not sun-induced - the author of this article is confused by the two categories.