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[Fake Messiah]

How sunscreen became the subject of troubling conspiracy theories

Variations on this scene are cropping up on social media with alarming frequency. Over on TikTok, this backlash against SPF (sun protection factor), known as the “anti-sunscreen movement”, has been brewing for a couple of years, but in the summer of 2025, it seems to have moved from a conspiratorial niche into something more mainstream.

Back in July, former The Only Way is Essex star Sam Faiers told her 2.5 million Instagram followers that she doesn’t use sunscreen, and neither does her family, including her young children. “Over the years, the kids have built up a really good tolerance to being in the sun,” she said, before claiming that many sunscreens “are actually pretty harmful and full of toxic ingredients”. In the same month, actor and influencer Kelsey Parker revealed that she avoids using SPF on her children, too (she said she uses a homemade “organic” version instead, made from beeswax and “no bad stuff”).

Their concerning beliefs aren’t outliers, either. Recent research has suggested that Gen-Zers are particularly susceptible to sunscreen myths. Last year, a study from the American Academy of Dermatology found that 28 per cent of 18- to 26-year-olds believe that getting a tan is more important than the risk of skin cancer, with 37 per cent admitting to only using sunscreen when they’re nagged by others to do so. And new data from health insurance provider Vitality found that 18 per cent of Gen Z respondents believed that you don’t need sun protection if you tan easily (there’s the myth of “good tolerance” again).

Cancer Research UK estimates that 85 per cent of cases of melanoma (a type of skin cancer that develops in melanin-producing cells) are caused by overexposure to UV radiation; their analysis has also found that melanoma rates have increased by almost one-third over the past decade.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style...12532.html

[AFTT47]

Call me heartless but I fully approve of idiots taking themselves out of the gene pool and off the voter rolls.. Whether its morons taking aquarium cleaner to treat COVID or eschewing sunscreen in the tropics and contracting melanoma, I don't find it troubling at all. I only wish more stupid people would embrace self-destructive conspiracies.

[zebo-the-fat]

Call me heartless but I fully approve of idiots taking themselves out of the gene pool and off the voter rolls.. Whether its morons taking aquarium cleaner to treat COVID or eschewing sunscreen in the tropics and contracting melanoma, I don't find it troubling at all. I only wish more stupid people would embrace self-destructive conspiracies.

I have no problem people damaging themselves because they think some guy on facebook knows more than the people who have studied it for years, but it's not fair to inflict the damage on their kids.

[Paleophyte]

“Over the years, the kids have built up a really good tolerance to being in the sun,”

Sounds like a quote from Dracula in Hotel Transylvania.

[Fake Messiah]

The truth is out there and it might be here in the cabinets and halls of the U.S. Dept. of Defense. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is now calling on the disclosure of all classified intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena and whether or not they arrived from out of this world.

Longtime civil rights attorney and ufo expert, Danny Sheehan is the founder of the new Paradigm Institute, a nonprofit lobbying congress to declassify all these documents. He is also the attorney for a former department of defense whistleblower named Luis Elizondo. He claims: What we're going to find out is that the there is an element deep within the defense department and the operations director of the central intelligence agency that has been committing perjury to congress, lying, denying the fact that they have recovered a non-human origin extraterrestrial spacecraft and the bodies that they've now DNA tested and know to be non-human.

This is one nutty conversation.

[HappySkeptic]

The truth is out there and it might be here in the cabinets and halls of the U.S. Dept. of Defense. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is now calling on the disclosure of all classified intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena and whether or not they arrived from out of this world.

Longtime civil rights attorney and ufo expert, Danny Sheehan is the founder of the new Paradigm Institute, a nonprofit lobbying congress to declassify all these documents. He is also the attorney for a former department of defense whistleblower named Luis Elizondo. He claims: What we're going to find out is that the there is an element deep within the defense department and the operations director of the central intelligence agency that has been committing perjury to congress, lying, denying the fact that they have recovered a non-human origin extraterrestrial spacecraft and the bodies that they've now DNA tested and know to be non-human.

This is one nutty conversation.

Non-humans have non-human DNA?  Well if they are from this planet that's a given.  If they are extra-terrestrial, that would win a Nobel Prize for sure - the fact that DNA is ubiquitous for alien life, and that it evolved elsewhere (barring interstellar panspermia).

Yeah, not buying it.  Some people want to get famous by being more crazy than the next person.  Makes for good ratings.

[Paleophyte]

The only thing crazy about that dude is his hair. His tale reads like a bad sci-fi story with a lousy script.

[Fake Messiah]

Wild conspiracies surround murder of 1950s ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ heartthrob, as his convicted killer seeks exoneration

Depending on whom you ask, the murder of “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant” star Sal Mineo was due to revenge, salacious Hollywood blackmail, Deep State CIA-linked assassins or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Now, criminal justice advocates are arguing that it was also a case of an innocent man being wrongly convicted and serving decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

In 1976, Mineo was a down-on-his-luck 37-year-old actor when he was brutally stabbed to death outside his West Hollywood apartment.

Lionel “Ray Ray” Williams, a black man with a long rap sheet and gang affiliations, was arrested and charged with Mineo’s murder in 1977.

The low-level criminal had never heard of the Hollywood heartthrob, and prosecutors alleged it was a robbery gone awry. Williams, now 69, said he had nothing to do with the actor’s slaying — and has always maintained his innocence.

“They wanted us all off the streets and that’s what they did. They sent a lot of people to prison,” he told the Post from his home in Bakersfield, Calif.

A new documentary about Williams’ case, “Unseen Innocence,” is currently playing at the Angelika Theatre in the East Village.

The film, and Williams’ advocates, allege that it all came down to a crooked police force desperate to close a high-profile crime, and that Ray Ray was a victim of corruption.

The year before his death, Mineo was shopping around a new film, “Sirhan Sirhan,” with himself playing the title character, a fictionalized version of the man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. The film intended to dramatize conspiracy theories surrounding RFK’s killing.

“I had always been convinced that Sirhan was the lone gunman who killed Kennedy, but now I believe there are grounds for doubt. If the film can influence the courts to reopen the case or force out new facts and answer questions, then it will serve its purpose,” Mineo said at the time.

Mineo was told to shut up about Sirhan, but he refused to. Some believe that got him killed.

One day, a mysterious man came to visit Williams in the clink.

The man said his name was Herald Blum, and that he was “a senator of some sort.” He made several trips to San Quentin to inform Williams he not only believed he was innocent — but a patsy.

He also wrote paranoid letters to Williams in prison, saying that he was being followed by the FBI and claimed to have known Mineo.

The shadowy “senator,” whose name doesn’t align with any elected officials of the time, also informed Williams of another theory: good ol’ fashioned sex and blackmail.

By 1976, Mineo was very openly bisexual. It was rumored that he’d slept with some of the most powerful men — and adulterous women — in Hollywood. His flagrant sexuality was a reason he struggled to get work. Legend had it that he felt scorned. Out for revenge, he threatened to publish a list of lovers unless they helped him out.

Five years before his murder, thugs broke into Mineo’s home and beat him so badly he was hospitalized. It was chalked up to a burglary attempt but a social acquaintance named Andreas Fontagne later said that Mineo and an accomplice had been threatening a Hollywood starlet with releasing a sex tape they recorded of her, and that the thugs were sent by the actress.

That alleged conspirator was “Hogan’s Heroes” star Bob Crane, according to Hollywood lore. Crane was murdered two years after Mineo, and his killers were never caught.

Four witnesses reported seeing a tall, blond, white man fleeing the scene of Mineo’s murder, with yellow locks bouncing as he ran away.

They also described what sounded like a planned hit — not the botched robbery prosecutors alleged.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/28/entertainm...-innocent/

[Fake Messiah]

'Donald Trump is dead' conspiracy as sleuths think they've proved it with pizza orders

Internet detectives think they've found proof that president Donald Trump is dead – and it's through the pizza deliveries around the White House. It appears overnight officials at the Pentagon in Washington DC ordered several pizzas.

One user on X shared a graph displaying the number of orders and deliveries taken out by several major pizza delivery restaurants. These branches, including Domino's and Papa Johns, had a spike of orders and deliveries at midnight (August 30). Taking to social media, conspiracy theorists suggested this is proof Donald Trump has passed away.

Another user shared: "THE TRAFFIC NEAR PIZZA PLACES CLOSE TO THE WHITE HOUSE MEANS THAT WORKERS AT THE PENTAGON ARE WORKING LATE BC TRUMP IS DEAD".

The theory, which has been gaining popularity online, suggests workers have been stuck in their offices overnight trying to arrange logistics over the supposed death. Elsewhere, the president has been showing some strange body language behaviours – and even failed to make a public appearance following the shooting in Minneapolis earlier in the week.

The original commenter added: "I was sceptical about all the stuff about trump maybe being dead or like in dire condition but uhhh the pizza index don't lie".

A fourth noted: "Trump hasn't been seen in days. The bruise on his hand. He has no public appearances scheduled Vance said he's 'ready to take over if something happens'. Pentagon Pizza Index 303% spike. Allegedly an ambulance was seen at the white house. The white house has said nothing so far".

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news...s-35818634

[zebo-the-fat]

Stop trying to cheer me up!