I can buy the mechanism of high sweetness/vol mucking with satiety or insulin heuristics. My problem with these studies is that the ones promoted by the media o

I can buy the mechanism of high sweetness/vol mucking with satiety or insulin heuristics. My problem with these studies is that the ones promoted by the media overwhelmingly tend to have "cheated" to obtain positive results -- they claim to have found a link between artificial sweetners and cancer/diabetes/whatever but show the usual signs of severe significance hacking when I skim the paper. My own belief heuristics lead me to the tentative conclusion that effect size is therefore very small.