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fluffychonkycat t1_iufgout wrote

I was a kid in the 80s and I knew all about it. In New Zealand and Australia we were extremely aware of it, and we still pay the price for it with high rates of skin cancers. People from the northern hemisphere are always surprised by how easy it is to get a bad sunburn here

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Suessbot t1_iufjngf wrote

No ody knew about it in the 80s unless you worked in the field or read the published studies.

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Bergensis t1_iujwuwm wrote

> No ody knew about it in the 80s unless you worked in the field or read the published studies.

I wouldn't have thought that Neil Young and Warren Zevon had the time and inclination to read the published studies. Both these songs were released in 1989:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvxxdZpMFHg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ZWu0l2Xok

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