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Not everyone likes the taste of coke zero, and others perceive it to be harmful due to the artificial sweeteners.

georgemcbay 11y ago
> Not everyone likes the taste of coke zero Well, there's literally no accounting for taste. Coke Zero is a fantastic tasting diet soda. > others perceive it to be harmful due to the artificial sweeteners These people should be ridiculed, like Jenny McCarthy is, since there's no reputable scientific or epidemiological basis for their beliefs.
- georgemcbay 11y ago
  Got at least 3 downvotes without a reply on this post. Pretty good demonstration that everyone (EVERYONE!) has some religious beliefs they can't stand to have someone call into question, even if they are likely the type who points out when others have the same problem.
  - CamperBob2 11y ago
    It's best not to go to health sites to discuss IT practices and startup culture, and it's best not to go to HN to discuss health- and medicine-related stories. Both communities are full of people who may have substantial expertise in their own fields, but who also enjoy pronouncing sweeping and groundless religious edicts in other fields that they don't actually know anything about.
  - mikeash 11y ago
    You might have been downvoted for stating that taste is subjective and then immediately declaring Coke Zero to be objectively good tasting, thus implying that people who dislike it are somehow wrong.
- babygoat 11y ago
  > These people should be ridiculed, like Jenny McCarthy is, since there's no reputable scientific or epidemiological basis for their beliefs. You think that is why Jenny McCarthy is ridiculed?
- kennydude 11y ago
  I prefer Coke Zero over the taste of normal Cola. Normal Cola just tastes of sugar to me :')
DannyBee 11y ago
"nd others perceive it to be harmful due to the artificial sweeteners" People perceive a lot of things. The number of peer reviewed studies on this is astonishing, and they have all found the same thing - they aren't harmful in any way we can possibly measure, in any sane amounts. If you feed rats ridiculous amounts of sweetener, they have issues (it's something like the equivalent of 5 gallons a day of sweetener) But if you feed rats ridiculous amounts of water, or apples, or anything "more natural", they have the same problem.
- brohoolio 11y ago
  I might be a minority here but I get really bad headaches from diet soda.

> Not everyone likes the taste of coke zero Well, there's literally no accounting for taste. Coke Zero is a fantastic tasting diet soda. > others perceive it to be harmful due to the artificial sweeteners These people should be ridiculed, like Jenny McCarthy is, since there's no reputable scientific or epidemiological basis for their beliefs.

georgemcbay 11y ago
Got at least 3 downvotes without a reply on this post. Pretty good demonstration that everyone (EVERYONE!) has some religious beliefs they can't stand to have someone call into question, even if they are likely the type who points out when others have the same problem.
- CamperBob2 11y ago
  It's best not to go to health sites to discuss IT practices and startup culture, and it's best not to go to HN to discuss health- and medicine-related stories. Both communities are full of people who may have substantial expertise in their own fields, but who also enjoy pronouncing sweeping and groundless religious edicts in other fields that they don't actually know anything about.
- mikeash 11y ago
  You might have been downvoted for stating that taste is subjective and then immediately declaring Coke Zero to be objectively good tasting, thus implying that people who dislike it are somehow wrong.
babygoat 11y ago
> These people should be ridiculed, like Jenny McCarthy is, since there's no reputable scientific or epidemiological basis for their beliefs. You think that is why Jenny McCarthy is ridiculed?
kennydude 11y ago
I prefer Coke Zero over the taste of normal Cola. Normal Cola just tastes of sugar to me :')

DannyBee 11y ago

"nd others perceive it to be harmful due to the artificial sweeteners" People perceive a lot of things. The number of peer reviewed studies on this is astonishing, and they have all found the same thing - they aren't harmful in any way we can possibly measure, in any sane amounts. If you feed rats ridiculous amounts of sweetener, they have issues (it's something like the equivalent of 5 gallons a day of sweetener) But if you feed rats ridiculous amounts of water, or apples, or anything "more natural", they have the same problem.

brohoolio 11y ago
I might be a minority here but I get really bad headaches from diet soda.