In July 2009 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an Agency organized within UN’s World Health Organization (WHO), announced through The Lancet Oncology medical journal and press-releases, the “breaking news”  about the classification of ‘the use of UV-emitting tanning devices to Group 1, “carcinogenic to humans”’.

This announcement created a new wave of articles and reports in many newspapers, magazines, journals and TV-channels around the world.  Many of the articles and reports went far beyond the original source in the reporters’ eagerness to create a “sensation” from this “news”.  None of the reporters seem to have bothered to go beyond the press-release, but if they would have done that they would have discovered the following facts: Continue Reading →