Excellent April Fool's over at the BBC

From the BBC:

Cheap holidays 'prompted rise in skin cancer rates'

The advent of cheap package holidays in the 1970s has led to a "generational shift" in the rates of deadly skin cancer, a charity has warned...

The article goes on to explain that you're much less likely to get skin cancer if you go on safari in Africa, or skiing at Closters or on a round-the-world cruise.

The 'charity' concerned is of course Cancer Research UK, who are such bansturbators that you'd expect them to be a government-funded fakecharity by now. I have skim read the accounts, and apart from a couple of questionable joint ventures mentioned in notes 13 and 14 (or thereabouts), they look legit. Damn. I'll get them next time.

Missing figures round ...

The widely reported statistic, that Sunbeds raise cancer risk by 75% (even assuming it to be correct) is of course meaningless unless you know what the actual cancer risks are, with and without using a sunbed.

As I like to say, the chances of you being hit by a meteorite are increased by several million per cent every time you leave a building and go outside.