Introduction

The "Hotel Melanoma" moniker is a metaphor for living with my particular brand of cancer. Except for those lucky few of us deemed "cured", all we cancer survivors are guests of one of the many, many branded hotels in the "Hotel Carcinoma" chain. We can check out any time we like, but we can never leave. Meanwhile, let's be livin' it up; and please support cancer education, prevention, and treatment research.



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Friday, June 15, 2012

Quack Medicine

Faux science, like 'studies' performed by researchers with sketchy professional credentials and that have undergone no peer review, seems to have become a mainstay of the defenders of indoor tanning.  The industry has taken one from the tobacco industry's playbook-- if you don't like the conclusions of mainstream medical researchers that your product is carcinogenic, then go out and buy some bad science that's more to your liking.

For all of the medical quacks on the payroll of the indoor tanning industry,  the Hotel Melanoma version of Eric Clapton’s “No Alibis”…


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVZ1O0pQPyc


I beg your pardon, 'Doc' Charlatan
This is C you're hawkin’ true
Get down and sell me about it
You don't have to tout it for D
Tell me what you’re really out to do


Don't give me no tan bed lies
No untrue stories you're trying to push beds by
Don't want no tan bed lies

Just another reason for another fry


Fortune gets steeper
The soul you hid hides deeper
You better stop tan lies now
'Cause we’re dying to shine the light on you
Baby we can see right through you
Some time we’ll prove what you’re all about


Don't give me no tan bed lies
Can't justify lying to push sales high
Don't want no tan bed lies
Just another reason for another fry


Don't give me no tan bed lies
No untrue stories you're trying to push beds by
Don't want no tan bed lies
Just another reason for another fry


Fortune gets steeper
The soul you sold is getting cheaper
Better reach deep and pull your soul out
Nobody ever gonna bug you the way that I bug you
And I really want to see you losin’ this bout


Don't give me no tan bed lies
No untrue stories you're trying to push beds by
Don't want no tan bed lies
Just another reason for another fry


Don't give me no tan bed lies
Can't justify lying to make sales high
Don't want no tan bed lies
Just another reason for another fry

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