In the last couple of days a number of news outlets have reported the findings of the World Health Organization concerning the incidence of skin cancer across the globe. Routers, for instance, opened its article  thus: As many as 60,000 people a year die from too much sun, mostly from malignant skin cancer, the World Health Organization reported on Wednesday. The phrase 'as many as 60,000' creates the impression that we are somehow dealing with a large number. In fact, the tenor of the article makes it almost sound we are on the verge of a nascent epidemic. But the reality is completely different. As a percentage of the world population, the 60,000 comes to 0.00092 %. In other words, less than one ten thousandth of one percent of the world's people dies of skin cancer in a given year. This is an extremely low proportion indeed. To gain a sense of comparison, there are an estimated 1.7 million road fatalities worldwide. To put it differently, you are more than 20 times more...(Read Full Post)