AS a hint of spring starts to penetrate the bleakness of the northern winter, strange creatures emerge blinking into the sunlight, making odd noises. And, if you are a writer on medical issues, even stranger things clamber into your email inbox.
“Every April,” one of these vernal harbingers proclaims, “a self-serving advocacy group masquerading as an objective professional association pitches you on the dangers of sunlight and tanning…they are misleading you in the hope you will ignore published scientific information from the medical and science community.”
Strong stuff. It is referring, of course, to publicity put out on behalf…
