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quickthrowmantoday at 4:38 PM0 repliesview on HN

> We act like people in the past were ignorant but people in the 50s and 60s were just a very special type of arrogant,

I’d be curious to know if tetraethyllead in gasoline has anything to do with people from that time being cavalier about exposure to the sun, or if the science was just not there to make the connection between sun exposure and skin cancer.