Silencing the Alarm on Aspartame and Cancer (opens in new tab)

“ Does aspartame cause cancer? There’s a small chance that the answer is yes – but probably only if you consume 50 Diet Cokes every day from birth until death – and even then, we don’t have any evidence that this cancer would lead to premature death. At consumption levels equivalent to the ADIs set by the FDA and other organizations – let alone at lower, more typical intake levels – we have no more reason to suspect aspartame as a carcinogenic threat than we have for suspecting carcinogenicity from chewing with your mouth open or wearing flip-flops in wintertime.”

Crying wolf on this puppy will get people eaten by an actually dangerous wolf. Too low a threshold for safety warnings is unsafe.

  As you may have guessed, this “evidence” comes from that seemingly inexhaustible fountain of bad science known as nutritional epidemiology.

An inexhaustible fountain of real and imaginary wolves that can't be separated by the data. That's actually useful as a starting point for RCTs, but has caused large scale premature death without them, as with the lipid hypothesis.