On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 12:09:14 PM UTC-8, wrote:
On Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 4:53:07 PM UTC+13, 2G wrote:

LOL! You don't accept the opinion of the FDA, but you DO accept that of a QUACK! Snopes merely published a response to these aspartame hoaxes by David Hattan, Acting Director of the Division of Health Effects Evaluation in the United States Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. You obviously didn't read it.
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For those concerned about thread drift, go ahead and scroll on by. It's easy! I do it all the time ...

You can't be that naive, 2G. The FDA has long been referred to as the "Fraud and Death Administration". Its head is a political appointee. The FDA serves the bottom lines of Big Food and Big Pharma, and the "revolving door" spins from the FDA to industry and back again at an alarming pace. Simply google FDA and "revolving door" to get quite an eyeful.

For 16 years G.D. Searle, now part of Monsanto, tried to get approval for aspartame, but it had been denied by FDA scientists. Why? Because three independent scientists found that aspartame came with a high danger of inducing brain tumours. "The FDA's own toxicologist, Dr Adrian Gross, told Congress that without a shadow of a doubt, aspartame can cause brain tumours and brain cancer."

Donald Rumsfeld, the CEO of Searle at the time, managed to use his transitional federal government position to place a crony in charge of the FDA -- Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr. Rumsfeld's man helped push aspartame through while hiding the results of certain tests before 1970, where monkeys either died or had grand mal seizures. No FDA Commissioner in the previous 16 years had allowed aspartame on the market. Dr Monte goes into the whole sordid story in his book, as do other scientists and journalists online. Rumsfeld reportedly received a $12 million bonus from Monsanto (which absorbed Searle) for his "efforts".

Soon after that successful dirty deed, Rumsfeld's useful crony Hayes went to work for Burson-Marsteller, the chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and G.D. Searle. The revolving door keeps on spinning.

Are you going to smear neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock as a quack, too? In his book _Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills_, he details the relationship between aspartame and macular degeneration, diabetic blindness, and glaucoma.

And good luck in blithely dismissing the medical text _Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic_ by Dr H. J. Roberts. Another quack in your estimation? These docs weren't rewarded with millions for their "efforts". On the contrary, taking on Big Pharma is time-consuming, costly, and dangerous.

Gotta love the FDA. Our tax dollars at work, serving corporate interests and not the public the FDA purports to protect.

So, have at it, 2G. Guzzle that aspartame. You might just be the lucky one, inured to the damage it does to the rest of us mere mortals. Interestingly, in a story for your "karma's a bitch" file, an employee working for the Searle family reported that, despite being warned by others of the dangers of aspartame, Bill Searle and his brother Fred continued to drink Diet Coke. (Bill was the driving force behind the approval for aspartame.) "Perhaps they were trying to justify themselves," the employee opined. Both died of brain cancer, but the employee reported that it was "hushed up".

Well, I guess that you believe that the FDA CAN'T be trusted - recommend that you swear off all prescription drugs! Are you related to Jim Jones?