• Sporky@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    It’s not astroturfing it’s people sick of these studies where they pump ungodly amounts of aspartame into mice until they get a reaction. Aspartame doesn’t do anything at the levels humans consume it, it’s one of the most studied compounds in food.

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      1 year ago

      It still tastes shit though.

      Worse are the drinks that took half the sugar out, but pumped sweeteners in as well, so you still get fat and now it tastes crap too.

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      1 year ago

      And cigarettes don’t cause cancer, and burning fossil fuels doesn’t cause global warming, and…

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        Ultimately life causes cancer. All of these things accelerate the speed that cancer tends to develop but, well… I doubt a cigarette a day will significantly impact your life expectancy. The dose makes the poison, after all.

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        1 year ago

        cigarettes don’t cause cancer

        they don’t

        smoking a pack a day raises the possibility of cancer

        drinking 20l of diet coke a day would probably also cause anxiety

        and burning fossil fuels doesn’t cause global warming

        climate change is natural. Ice age didn’t end because of fossil fuels