Herman Bekele is TIME's 2024 Kid if the Year

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Anonymous wrote:I think the kid is incredible-what I will say is not about him. It's more thinking about skin cancer and prevention. There is risk in the prevention too. So we all wear lots of sunscreen and are learning those chemicals can be quite toxic, but we do it, especially those of us with more risk because getting melanoma especially would be worse. Why use a soap with a bunch of chemicals too as prevention? If it's an affordable treatment, then awesome, but it will be interesting years from now to see if the research pans out. (Yes, I need to read the article closely too-only skimmed it when it first came out).

I see it's for treatment early on too. Very curious if it's enough. With soap you can't really figure out what dose the person is getting and how much the skin is absorbing vs. what gets washed away. I commend him for doing this and trying to find it all out. I'm surprised nobody thought of it before. My husband had a skin condition where he was given a special prescription soap as part of the treatment.

[Anonymous]

His name is Heman, not Herman

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the kid is incredible-what I will say is not about him. It's more thinking about skin cancer and prevention. There is risk in the prevention too. So we all wear lots of sunscreen and are learning those chemicals can be quite toxic, but we do it, especially those of us with more risk because getting melanoma especially would be worse. Why use a soap with a bunch of chemicals too as prevention? If it's an affordable treatment, then awesome, but it will be interesting years from now to see if the research pans out. (Yes, I need to read the article closely too-only skimmed it when it first came out).

I see it's for treatment early on too. Very curious if it's enough. With soap you can't really figure out what dose the person is getting and how much the skin is absorbing vs. what gets washed away. I commend him for doing this and trying to find it all out. I'm surprised nobody thought of it before. My husband had a skin condition where he was given a special prescription soap as part of the treatment.

DP. There are various delivery methods, including cream, foam, solution, soap, etc. for different drugs. As noted above, the delivery methods are patented which is what allows pharma companies to charge lots of $ for them. The cream or soap itself isn't expensive, the IP is. While drug companies may overcharge for drugs, it is true that developing a drug, including research, testing, etc. is extremely expensive and needs to cover not only the cost of the drug itself but also failed drugs too. So it's good to think of different delivery methods that may be better or may be useful alternatives, but that won't necessarily reduce the cost of the drug.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the kid is incredible-what I will say is not about him. It's more thinking about skin cancer and prevention. There is risk in the prevention too. So we all wear lots of sunscreen and are learning those chemicals can be quite toxic, but we do it, especially those of us with more risk because getting melanoma especially would be worse. Why use a soap with a bunch of chemicals too as prevention? If it's an affordable treatment, then awesome, but it will be interesting years from now to see if the research pans out. (Yes, I need to read the article closely too-only skimmed it when it first came out).

I mean loolking in my bathroom I see all different kinds of soaps incl ones that claim to be "clean". Where does it say it is a soap "with a bunch of chemicals"?

You should publish an article bringing this fallacy to the attn of the scientific community.

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Where do you guys think your hatred of blk children comes from and do you think removing AA (meant to address it) has reduced it? What else do you need now?