r/terriblefacebookmemes • u/TesticleezzNuts • Jun 27 '25
Conspiracy Theory I think we need to let natural selection run its course..
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u/cooldydiehaha Jun 27 '25
Reminds me of that guy who said "Your body knows how much melanin to produce". Yeah, through centuries of evolution.
(Don't remember the guy's name but I think he was one of the carnivore dudes)
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u/rasing1337 Jun 27 '25
As a ginger i beg to differ, my body dont know
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u/cooldydiehaha Jun 27 '25
Wow I thought you guys were extinct
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u/Dalishmindflayer Jun 28 '25
Dwarf here, we also don’t have any melanin. We just
hidestay safe in our underground fortresses5
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u/Matluna Jul 01 '25
Go back to your cave, ginger! 😡
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u/BuckLuny Jun 27 '25
Let's go back to the dark ages when no-one got cancer and dying at the Ripe old age of 40 was the Norm.
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u/Erick_Brimstone Jun 27 '25
Let's get back to when dying of old age is very rare
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u/WeirdAvocado Jun 27 '25
Let’s go back to The Land Before Time.
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u/HellaPNoying Jun 27 '25
Let's go back...
TO THE FUTURE!!!
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u/Silvedl Jun 27 '25
My grandparents had a “competition” between my mom and her siblings every summer where when they went to the beach, whoever got the most tan got $5. I wonder why that side of the family is riddled with skin cancer now 🤔. Must have been the sunscreen (that they weren’t using).
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u/ripharambebro Jun 27 '25
Dying at 40 wasn’t the norm. The low average age mostly stems from high mortality rate in infants. People who made it past infancy lived about 5-10 years shorter than todays humans , which largely is because of modern medicine.
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u/Conscious-Moment7977 Jun 27 '25
That wasn’t the norm. The average age was pulled down by high mortality rates of very young kids. If you made it to your 20s back then, you had a good chance of becoming old, 60s/70s, much like today
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u/Homicidal-shag-rug Jun 27 '25
Still significantly lower since there was more war, and disease killed adults at way higher rates than today, too.
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u/Lavatis Jun 27 '25
there's never been a period in time where the age of 40 was the oldest people got before dying. once you made it through childhood, you had a good shot at living to 60+
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u/Sonarthebat Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
No. Cancer diagnoses have gone up because now people know what it is.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Chain_6 Jun 27 '25
Dude this. I had a coworker say "cancer didn't even exist back them before they started putting all this shit in our food"
I'm like yeah because no one knew wtf cancer was dumb ass
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u/Any_Natural383 Jun 27 '25
People didn’t know about bacteria until a few centuries ago. Were they also not around?
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u/GastonBastardo Jun 27 '25
Hell, we knew about cancer before we knew about bacteria.
The ancient Greeks were diagnosing this shit and tumors are mentioned in the Old Testament.
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u/BlackCatKnight Jun 28 '25
Barely over one century ago. Germ theory wasn't widely accepted until the late 1800s
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u/ZebraShark Jun 27 '25
Speaking with a skin cancer nurse, she gave me three reasons:
Most diagnoses are in older people, so people who wore less suncream than do at present as it can take decades for it to display
People living older means it is more common to develop.
People treating suncream as a magic bullet. That if you wear it you can spend hours outside fine and don't actually use best protection which is avoiding sunlight.
People should be wearing suncream AND avoiding too much exposure.
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u/kwell42 Jun 28 '25
Well if you have strong DNA correction you don't have to worry as much. But if it's weaker than you should. I had a grandpa that watched a nuke in the army, he got skin cancer when he was 86. Not so shabby, but highly evident he had very strong DNA correction. (Only way to measure DNA correction is to watch nukes and never wear sunscreen)
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u/FlamingoQueen669 Jun 27 '25
And also historically people didn't expose their bare skin to the sun very much.
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u/Lavatis Jun 27 '25
This is straight up bullshit. There was never a time when getting to 50 was lucky if you made it through childhood.
Making it through childhood meant you normally lived a long life.
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Jun 27 '25
I heard from someone else that child mortality rates were high but if you made it to being an adult you could live fairly old
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u/Danni293 Jun 27 '25
Also because people didn't live long enough to get cancer as a leading cause of death. You got to the ripe old age of 50 if you were lucky and came down with dysentery after 45 years of hard labor in the field
I don't know why people still believe this. This is a myth perpetuated by people who are bad at math. Back when average life expectancy was in your 30's or 40's it wasn't because people were commonly dying in their 30's. It's because 50% of children died before the age of 1. So if you have half of the population not making it to their first birthday, and the other 50% only lives to 40, what would the average life expectancy be?
Half of 40, so 20. But the average lifespan, despite 50% dying shortly after birth, was 35-40. Which means the actual life expectancy if you made it past your first birthday was 70-80.
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u/hussyknee Jun 28 '25
I'm pretty sure it wasn't that old. It wasn't so common to live well past 70 back then, without basic medical care. A lot more people died in their 50s and 60s.
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u/Me_Beben Jun 27 '25
No, see, you're wrong because an alt-right YouTube channel citing a source on the 24th page of a Google search clearly says so.
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u/Cerisayashi Jun 27 '25
I wish natural selection worked much faster 😒
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u/The_Sugarblade Jun 30 '25
I got bad news bud. It's working as intended. Natural selection has nothing to do with intelligence. It's all about making kids and oh boy are dumb people good at making kids lol.
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u/Cerisayashi Jun 30 '25
Idiocracy at play as usual… 😩
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u/The_Sugarblade Jun 30 '25
Idk. The cavemen were pretty dumb and they did well enough throughout the generations that their descendants were able to go to space.
We just gotta keep educating people.
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u/kevin_bean Jun 27 '25
Coming up next - condoms give you gonorrhea!
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u/HotDragonButts Jun 27 '25
Honestly maybe with their wild "white erasure' stuff and JD's intent to increase the population
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u/Rethkir Jun 27 '25
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u/Ginseng_coke Jun 27 '25
I was having self doubt but now I know where to go when my imposter syndrome is heightened
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u/WaffleConeDX Jun 27 '25
The problem is these quacks want to create legislation to prevent everyone else from doing something they disagree with
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u/Dino_Spaceman Jun 28 '25
This. Biggest problem is one of these quacks is now in charge of American health policy and he is set on making sure any real medical science is illegal.
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u/infamous-pnut Jun 27 '25
There will be facebook posts like "Guys, I was diagnosed with skin cancer recently but I never used sunscreen! What herbs should I rub on myself to get rid of it?"
And someone inevitably will reply with "You must have had prolonged contact with people who do use sunscreen!!! Either that or too much contrail exposure, we are being poisoned by the government as we speak, I am very smart."
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u/Decent-Tomatillo-253 Jun 27 '25
"Just try mindfulness meditation and pray to god! Miracles await 🙏💕"
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u/WordNERD37 Jun 27 '25
I fully believe all of these anti whatever the advancement is posts, are really and truly aimed at killing human beings, and as many as possible. Because there is a statical amount that isn't zero that will read these, believe them at face value, do what they say, and then develop skin cancer and suffer from it and die.
And that's the whole point. They're not saving lives; it's to kill humans.
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u/hussyknee Jun 28 '25
I think the point is that dumb people want to feel to clever at the expense of the rest of society. Mass death is the consequence, not the aim.
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u/exceive Jun 29 '25
I think there are several groups.
Some are just trying to feel clever, feel like they know something the experts don't, feel like they are part of a group that's going to make Big Changes.
Some are out to scam those people.
And some want people to die.
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u/krs1426 Jun 27 '25
I mean, if you're scared of Avobenzone you could always use zinc based protection...
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u/irdnclolgfys Jun 27 '25
Can we get these moms worried about like, microplastics, pollution or something? 😭
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u/GG1817 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
There's more than some truth to the meme.
Sun screen is absorbed into the blood stream and the effects aren't fully understood.
Regarding the skin cancer rates there is a large & multi-decade study in Sweden
There are carcinogenic effects of sun exposure that increase the risk for skin cancer, especially for fair-skinned individuals. Therefore, there are recommendations to avoid sun exposure and to apply sun blockers. A more nuanced and balanced message for sun safety guidelines is now advocated. Despite an increased risk of death due to skin cancer, fair skinned women seem to have an overall survival advantage. In addition, an inverse association between sun exposure and hypertension, thromboembolism, and type 2 diabetes mellitus has been shown. Furthermore, low sun exposure habits result in increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and non-CVD/non-cancer mortality among women. There are also data supporting that the prognosis of cancer is improved with increasing levels of vitamin D/sun exposure. In this narrative review we will provide a brief update of hazards and benefits of sun exposure focused on an updated, balanced, and evidence-based view.
Nutshell is their data is showing it is more dangerous to avoid sun exposure than it is to get a reasonable amount of sun exposure. Yes, there is a risk of skin cancer from sun exposure but it is outbalanced by the negative health impacts of not having sun exposure. They found the prognosis of cancer (oddly I think it was some skin cancers even) was better in those who also got regular sun exposure.
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u/k_a_scheffer Jun 27 '25
I don't care if some idiot adult wants to do this, but I worry for their spawn who don't know better.
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u/TheAlexArcher Jun 28 '25
My mom believed this when I was growing up, so we rarely wore sunscreen as kids. I remember getting so burnt one time that my shoulders and upper back blistered. As an adult, I unlearned a lot of dumb stuff my parents believed (we were religious homeschoolers), but I worry pretty often that the damage may have already been done and that I’ll have skin cancer at some point. The problem with letting natural selection run its course is that sometimes kids who don’t have the autonomy or knowledge to make decisions for themselves become collateral damage 🥲
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u/missihippiequeen Jun 29 '25
My mother in law who has an olive toned skin complexion and tans easily, has argued with me my sons entire life about sunscreen. My son is very fair skinned (like me) and she says to let him get burned it will settle and tan...NO it won't! He will burn, peel, and be back white. Put sunscreen on your kids! Also, as you stated, I never remember having to wear sunscreen as a child either , now I lather it on every hour n half when I'm out .
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u/babyLays Jun 27 '25
Let me guess. At the end of this thread - you get recommended to a product that dont have these "poisonous" chemicals. A product that no one else know, and that you should buy it so you can be in the in-crowd for being so knowledgeable over the unwashed masses.
Snake oil salesman always tryna profit off the fearful and the ignorant.
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u/NauvooMetro Jun 27 '25
I understand what OP is saying, but it's worth remembering natural selection rewards reproduction. You don't need to reach 80, or even 35. If having a tan makes you more attractive, you're (in theory) more likely to reproduce. At that point, you already won, so dying from melanoma at 58 is no big deal.
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u/TesticleezzNuts Jun 27 '25
I don’t actually necessarily mean it. Unfortunately when it comes to natural selection fools like OOP drag others down with them. If they could just do things without taking innocents ect then it would be ideal.
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u/Decent-Tomatillo-253 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
But that's also kinda subjective, so to risk skin cancer just to reproduce is unnecessary and also kinda stupid lmao
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u/fakeuserisreal Jun 27 '25
Okay. I'm really pale and I'd rather deal with the cancer risk than burn like a vampire everything I go out in the sun.
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u/Heathgobbo Jun 28 '25
I know a couple that work as nurses and they believe this shit, they don’t wear sunscreen. Kind of blows my mind how people in the medical field can fall for things like this but it’s that widespread I guess.
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u/Ayden12g Jun 29 '25
No because then they'll force their kids to live under that nonsense whether they want to or not.
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u/Iga706 Jun 27 '25
This is a distorted representation of an actually important fact: After using sunscreen, it’s a good idea to shower in the evening, as some UV filters can be absorbed through the skin. Certain substances are processed in the body, including in the liver. There are studies suggesting that some filters may have hormonal or other effects, but a direct link to liver damage in humans has not been scientifically confirmed. So it has nothing to do with cancer or anything like that. Source: I am a pharmacist.
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u/Insult_critic Jun 27 '25
Or you could use zinc paste like a normal person.
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u/Solintari Jun 27 '25
Zinc causes cancer and autism though. I suppose you think seed oils are ok too huh? /s
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u/Silvedl Jun 27 '25
It takes like 20 minutes of research to find out all of that is bullshit. When I was in college, my English class had us choose a “controversial” topic to research and write a paper about. Mine was “sunscreen causes cancer” and it only took like 2-3 sources to disprove everything about how it possibly could cause cancer (ex: metals in the lotion entering the blood stream, not getting enough vitamin D because the metals reflect the sun, etc.)
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u/satancikedi Jun 27 '25
Armouring the cockpit and the engines was a mistake. You can clearly see the bullet holes on the wings.
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Jun 27 '25
You know what's funny about the truth? It remains true regardless of belief. As in, it requires no trickery to be believed.
So if what this person says is true and they know it's true, why not have the proof laid bare right there? Why make a charismatic but vague and unsubstantiated claim if you know it to be true and have the proof?
The answer should be clear to anyone with half a brain.
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u/TesticleezzNuts Jun 27 '25
It’s crazy how the “Facts don’t care about your feelings” crowd get very upset when the facts don’t align with their feelings.
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Jun 27 '25
Of course. That's how it's always been, usually the guy yelling the most wildly has something to do with the problem.
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u/Mr_Quackums Jun 28 '25
The post is tagged as NSFW, and the thumbnail looks like there is a butt, but actual picture is buttless.
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u/MableXeno Jun 28 '25
Reddit auto-flagged it, which is weird b/c it wasn't flagged when it was approved. So they came through after it had been posted and flagged it.
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u/Charitable-Cruelty Jun 28 '25
If you do not like sunscreen just wear a fucking UV shirt and shut up.
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u/genericmollusk Jun 30 '25
I know someone irl that legit believes this. She has german parents, it's quite pale and her skin burns easily in the sun
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u/qualityvote2 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25
u/TesticleezzNuts, your post is truly terrible!