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“dogma always comes with a set of though-terminating clichés, which help believers hide their close-mindedness–mainly from themselves.” — Jeff Schmidt, Disciplined minds.
“That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” –George Carlin
“I do this real moron thing, and it’s called thinking. And apparently I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.” –George Carlin
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The three most common types of skin cancer are Basal cell carcinoma, Squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma.
Basal and squamosa have a 5 year survival rate of 95%-100% because they rarely metastasize and spread(1).
Melanoma is the cancer to consider if you’re worried about dying.
https://cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/cancer-types/skin-non-melanoma/prognosis-and-survival/survival-statistics
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(sun exposure is) “positively associated with melanoma survival”
A study was performed to consider if sun exposure was the cause of the association.
Results:
(Sun exposure was) “statistically significantly inversely associated with death from melanoma.” “HR = 0.4”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15687362/
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“Arguments against sunlight being a cause of
melanoma … will be made under the following headings: age dependence; sex ratio; distribution on the body; association with sun exposure; variation with latitude”
“there have been 14 case-control studies”
“In seven of these, there was found to be no statistically significant association between melanoma incidence and sun exposure 9–15 . In five of these, there was a statistically significant negative association between melanoma incidence and sun exposure”
“Melanoma is not caused by sunlight”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9920435/
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“We analyzed the CMM incidences at 5-year interval midpoints from 1955 to 2000 for European countries”
“we found CMM incidence increases with decreasing UV dose in Europe”
“in a controlled experimental” ” the percentage of animals having CMM actually decreased with increasing UVB doses, including those producing sunburns”
https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1280&context=mscs_fac
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“The description is not the described; if you are caught in the description then you will never see.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti
“What we can’t change has to be a church, Paul. Get it?”– Nod by Adrian Barnes
“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.” –George Carlin
canopy
Shadows on the Rock
Willa Cather
goodreads –
“Shadows on the Rock , written after Willa Cather discovered Quebec City during an unplanned stay in 1928, is the second of her “Catholic” historical novels and reflects her fascination with finding a little piece of France in eastern Canada. Set in the late seventeenth century, the novel centers on the activities of the widowed apothecary Euclide Auclair and his young daughter, Cecile. To Auclair’s house and shop come trappers, missionaries, craftsmen, the indigent—those seeking cures, a taste of France, or liberation from the corruptions caused there by the excesses of the French court. Set against these fictional characters, historical personages such as Bishop Laval, Count Frontenac, and others contend in the political life of the vast colony.”