There has been such a recent rash of celebrity-endorsed Public Service Announcements that I am starting to think such involvement is now a new requirement in the Celebrity for Dummies guidebook.

The latest group to star in a PSA include some heavy-weight young Hollywood celebs: Zac Efron, Dakota Fanning, Kristen Bell, Vanessa Hudgens, Andrew Garfield, Zachary Levi, Donald Faison, Jon Heder, Logan Lerman, Naya Rivera, Olivia Munn, Sofia Vassilieva, Clark Duke, William Moseley, Aubrey Plaza and Aaron Yoo.  All of these celebs Stand Up To Cancer with the message: “It’s Up2 all of us to change the odds of getting cancer in our lifetimes.”

This video is pretty captivating with its cool statistics about the odds of various unlikelihoods such as being stuck in an elevator, bowling the perfect game, or becoming an astronaut, and so on. Until the video punches the viewer in the gut with the very last statistic: The odds of developing cancer. The odds stated in the video seem so depressingly high–high enough to ensure that we all reach into our pockets and make a donation.

I don’t know anything about the organization behind this PSA but I hope these celebs are doing their homework before lending their names to any campaign – lest they get hit with the same issues facing Sandra Bullock and her endorsement of the Women of the Storm PSA.