Welp, It’s Time to Fess Up: We Got Sunlight All Wrong
It’s one of the only things that reliably increases health, longevity, and happiness. So why are we so hellbent on blocking it out?
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Life Sun’s Out, Buns Out For decades, we’ve demonized the sun. Turns out we were mostly wrong. By Rowan Jacobsen June 16, 202610:33 AM Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Copy Link Share Share Comment Copy Link Share Share Comment The following is an excerpt from Rowan Jacobsen’s forthcoming book, In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure, out from Simon & Schuster June 16. It has been edited and condensed for Slate. In the spring of 2025, I became intensely fascinated by a topic that, for the last seven years, had become increasingly present in my mind. That topic, which would soon consume my every waking thought and which I would eventually turn into a book, was sunlight.
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