Silencing the Alarm on Aspartame and Cancer

“ 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.<p><pre><code> As you may have guessed, this “evidence” comes from that seemingly inexhaustible fountain of bad science known as nutritional epidemiology. </code></pre> An inexhaustible fountain of real and imaginary wolves that can&#x27;t be separated by the data. That&#x27;s actually useful as a starting point for RCTs, but has caused large scale premature death without them, as with the lipid hypothesis.