{"id":57926,"date":"2026-08-02T20:28:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/sunscreen-doesnt-cause-cancer-but-false-claims-keep-spreading\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T20:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:28:46","slug":"sunscreen-doesnt-cause-cancer-but-false-claims-keep-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/sunscreen-doesnt-cause-cancer-but-false-claims-keep-spreading\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunscreen doesn&#8217;t cause cancer but false claims keep spreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Social media posts wrongly claiming that sunscreen causes cancer have been spreading widely online. And, as rates of skin cancer continue to rise, health experts worry that such baseless claims could discourage people from protecting themselves from harmful ultraviolet radiation. BBC Verify&#8217;s Marco Silva reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by Kevin Nguyen. Shot and edited by Tom Joyner. Graphics design by Leo Scutt-Richter.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cy4kv8ezpdyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media posts wrongly claiming that sunscreen causes cancer have been spreading widely online. And, as rates of skin cancer continue to rise, health experts worry that such baseless claims could discourage people from protecting themselves from harmful ultraviolet radiation. BBC Verify&#8217;s Marco Silva reports. Produced by Kevin Nguyen. Shot and edited by Tom Joyner. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[896,1121,7058,1318,1726,12086],"class_list":["post-57926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-cancer","tag-claims","tag-doesnt","tag-false","tag-spreading","tag-sunscreen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57928,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57926\/revisions\/57928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}