Comments on We're Doomed

Not only do we get SAD but we're gonna get cancer too?

Good thing i drink 2 gallons of milk a week

Whatever. I'm sick of "researchers" and their bullshit research. These aren't findings.

Just take a vitamin pill, ya pasty whiner.

Or go fry yourself in a tanning bed.

Skin cancer or lung cancer? How's a boy to decide?

"In this case, the researchers have not actually measured people's vitamin D levels, and there may be several other factors that need to be taken into account."

What a bunch of jerks. Russians, Canadians, Swedes, Norwegians, English: the whole bunch of'em usually starts smoking at age 13.

guess I'll be drinking more milk with my morning Pall Mall.

Well.

Good thing I'm heading to Santa Barbara to go surfing for a week on Sunday ...

You might want to take up snowboarding or skiing ...

"Doomed" or "mortal"--because honestly, if the plan is to live forever, you're going to end up very disappointed.

Jeez, I suggest that even grade school students could come up with a more rigorous explanation for higher rates of LUNG cancer in climates with less sunlight.

Let's go with the logical possibility that stagnant indoor air (even in cities like Seattle with public smoking bans) holds more cancer-causing pollutants than outdoor air, and people in cloudy weather conditions are apt to spend more time indoors than people in sunny climates.

Doh!

living a long life is overrated. for 90% of americans, it's an additional ten years spent on their fat asses watching bad reality tv, anyway.

Or getting raped in assisted-living communities.

My Dad died a doddering old fool at 80 thanks to Alzheimers. If that's the alternative, somebody pass the Camels.

Once again supporting the idea that we need to petition the city council to fund more sunlight hours.

Wait, cancer? Haven't they cured that yet?

Cured? No.

But in an effort to discourage its spread, the council has voted to impose a sin tax on anyone who has it.

Even if they found a cure for cancer, we'd never see it, and some lab group would get dead.

Do the Inuit/Eskimo/Arctic First Nation peoples really get lung cancer more than Caucasians? Or is it the wall to wall carpeting most westerners have in their homes that spew fibers into the air?

Countries farther from the equator also have higher rates of breast cancer and higher rates of MS. And as far as Inuits go, it's my understanding that oily fish and the like are a good source of vitamin D.

Just put on some Eydie Gorme and let your cares melt away. . .

Is it... THE RAIN? (I loved those gloomy-ass Multiple Sclerosis billboards. They should do lung cancer billboards just like those ones.

Don't blame the researchers, Poe. This is shitty reporting, not shitty research.

Researchers: "We looked at A, B, and C. We found D, E, and F. Bear in mind that we still need to look at X, Y, and Z, which we hope to do once funding comes through."

Media: "Lack of sun causes lung cancer!" Media fine print: "No one has actually determined that lack of sunlight causes lung cancer."

As someone who's kept up with vitamin D research for a few years, I find it likely that there is a link between vitamin D deficiency and cancer (among other things) in general. Doesn't mean the final word is in, though, or that they don't need more research. But vitamin D is safe up to many times the RDA, so I take big doses.

Tell me more about this Vitamin F.

What does it cure?

It gets worse, with global dimming we living above the 45th parallel will get EVEN LESS sunlight than we would have before. ha!