One of the best things about Red Flags is that it is so often right. Take the healing power of sunshine, for example. Whilst mainstream medical thinking has become increasingly hysterical about the dangers of allowing one photon to brush your skin lest a host of deadly malignant melanomas are triggered into life, Red Flags runs a story suggesting that getting a suntan is healthy.

Humans evolved with the sun. That is obvious from the variation of skin pigmentation depending on ancestral roots: skin is very dark in the tropical plains regions of Africa, brown in the tropical forests, turning to lighter values with increasing latitude in Europe and Asia.

My sister in law, who tends to believe absolutely everything she reads on medical matters, lives in terror of her children being subjected to one unshielded photon from that evil shiny ball in the sky. On trips to the seaside she rushes about the beach, cupped hands full of factor eight billion suntan cream, ready to fling herself into a fresh application frenzy at all times. For her, the sun is the equivalent of a hooded paedophile hiding at a darkened street corner, itching to harm her kids.

Just because a doctor is a specialist in one area of medicine, it does not mean he or she knows everything there is to know about other medical areas. So if I asked my husband, who is an obstetrician/gynecologist, a question about skin, he would answer, "I am not a dermatologist."  Several years ago, my husband and I learned a lot about dermatology and what we learned might come in handy for you one day.