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0 pointsthe_jeremy2y ago0 comments

> My relative drank diet coke and got cancer

> I get it ... I need numbers, not anecdotes, but it sure is curious.

No, it is not curious. The IARC finding found limited evidence linking aspartame to liver cancer alone[0], no other types. You have a 1/28 (male) or 1/91 (female) chance of developing bladder cancer in your lifetime[1].

Please do not post comments that sound like Tucker Carlson rhetoric.

0: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/aspa... 1: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/bladder-cancer/about/key...

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ChatGTP2y ago

Please do not post comments that sound like Tucker Carlson rhetoric.

Please do not be so fragile. It is curious to me, so what?

There are many, many things we've been told are ok for us and it turned out they weren't the most striking example for me recently has been PFOAs. In our area, firefighters used to spray down kids with "harmless fire retardant foam" and choppers would dump it into the forest by the ton. Now rivers near us are completely forbidden to go near because of the contamination.

I dislike TC as much as anyone else, but he is successful because some of these "conspiracies" can turn out to be true or partially true. Sorry but it is just a fact.

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