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What’s your point? This is a very low effort, meme comment. Seems like a good argument to me. If aspartame is cancerous and people drink a shit ton of it would

• tptacek 3y ago
  I didn't read it as a barb! There really are Diet Coke fiends. If you don't drink a lot of diet soda, the idea of drinking it to the exclusion of all other liquids might seem pretty wacky.
  • TheBlight 3y ago
    >I didn't read it as a barb! Didn't intend it as one! Just misidentified a member of my own tribe is all.
• DanBC 3y ago
  There's a big difference between "this causes cancer" and "this causes lots of cancer". IARC look at the quality of the evidence to put things into one of four groups. Some things definitely do cause cancer, but they don't cause very much cancer. Don't forget that there are several multi-billion dollar companies who sell aspartame who are vigorously campaigning to promote the safety of their products. It's entirely unsurprising that the data is unclear when you have that level of interference in the research. It's also really tricky to do diet research on humans - we can't lock people up for a year to give them a controlled diet, so we end up asking them to write down what they've eaten and drunk. This means the data researchers have is pretty bad. Looking for a small signal in very noisy data is hard.