{"id":16137,"date":"2015-02-26T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=16137"},"modified":"2015-02-25T10:36:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T15:36:05","slug":"did-cdc-burn-the-truth-in-er-sunbed-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/did-cdc-burn-the-truth-in-er-sunbed-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Did CDC Burn the Truth in ER-Sunbed Report?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December, two senior officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control &amp; Prevention published a short report in one of the American Medical Association&#8217;s journals, asking the public to believe that sunbeds cause 3,234 emergency room visits per year in the United States &#8212; a figure that was promoted to news organizations everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>But 3,234 isn&#8217;t a real number; it&#8217;s a manufactured number. And as you look closer and closer at the math used to create it, you have to wonder how this &#8220;research letter&#8221; (two pages, if you include the graphs) ever got published. This paper has the appearance of content designed to misrepresent the topic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smarttan.epubxp.com\/i\/449729\/69\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the entire article in the latest issue of Smart Tan Magazine online.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December, two senior officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control &amp; Prevention published a short report in one of the American Medical Association&#8217;s journals, asking the public to believe that sunbeds cause 3,234 emergency room visits per year in the United States &#8212; a figure that was promoted to news organizations everywhere. 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