Tag Archives: skin cancer

What’s really scary about the latest sunscreen scare story

It’s the slow-news, silly season, it’s summer…and it’s the perfect time for pitching advertising dressed up as news, especially if it involves scare stories about sunscreens.
And so we have suffered a rash of “news” stories this week in which Perth toxicologist Peter Dingle sounds a loud alarm about nasty chemicals in sunscreens.
He appeared yesterday on [...]

The media as scientific cheer squad

The news that Australian scientists are “on the verge” of developing a skin cancer vaccine has consumed significant amounts of prime-time media space in the past few days. It’s even made international headlines.
This has all been superb publicity for the Australian Health and Medical Research Congress, where the work was due to be presented [...]