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(NaturalNews) A new "sunlight scare story" report in the Washington Post claims that lip balm "attracts the sun's rays to the lips." This is certainly news to everybody who thought light traveled in a straight line. Apparently, lip balm can now alter the laws of physics and cause light to bend like, say, a planet the size of Jupiter (which slightly bends light due to the spacetime warping effects of its massive gravity).

This latest adventure in really bad journalism at the Washington Post is all part of a campaign to scare readers into thinking they need to put sunscreen chemicals on their lips. After asserting that shiny lip balm products "attract the sun's rays to the lips," this Washington Post article goes on to warn readers that they have to put sunscreen chemicals on their lips to avoid getting a kind of cancer that's very dangerous and can easily spread from the lips to -- get this -- the lymph nodes! Yes, you read it right: The way to prevent cancer is to put cancer-causing sunscreen chemicals on your lips.

The Washington Post story was taken straight from a Baylor University Medical Center press release. It adds no new facts to the press release, nor does it exhibit any degree of skepticism about whether the press release is actually true. The entire story is based on the opinion of a single "expert" who apparently lacks any real scientific credibility due to the fact that she thinks lip balm can create a large gravity well that bends light towards the face of a consumer. I wonder if next week, she'll announce that people should also wear sunscreen when they go sailing just in case they fall off the edge of the Earth. Sunlight is more intense when you fall off the edge and you're floating in outer space, didn't you know?

Why some journalists would fail grade school science class

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