It uncovered eight WHO panelists involved with assessing safe levels of aspartame consumption who are beverage industry consultants who currently or previously worked with the alleged Coke front group, International Life Sciences Institute (Ilsi).

Their involvement in developing intake guidelines represents “an obvious conflict of interest”, said Gary Ruskin, US Right-To-Know’s executive director. “Because of this conflict of interest, [the daily intake] conclusions about aspartame are not credible, and the public should not rely on them,” he added.

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    1 year ago

    This kind of shit makes people distrustful of science in general. Way to go, guys.

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      I mean, if you really want to understand science then you need to become a scientist.

      Just taking people’s word for it is the same as treating it like a religion.

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      It should make you distrustful of politics, lawmakers, lobbyists, and capitalism not science itself. Pure science is unbiased and systematic, by definition.

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        Science is done by people, and people are inherently biased at all times and about all things, consciously or not.