Aspartame!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

How did I miss this DU crisis? I saw a "It'll kill ya!" post on DU and was shocked how many people followed up with ridiculous "facts". So I did a search on Google and was shocked at polls, posts and OPs describing the FDA secretly poisoning the world with aspartame. What shocked me more than anything else was the lack of argument against this. Vaccine threads...there are usually one or two people that call out people on nonsense pulled from homeopathy sites. But for aspartame threads...it seems most everyone agreed.

[TZ]

1. Yep. Donald Rumsfeld was in investor in the company that developed it

So it must be teh evil, screw science. LOL--everything the woos hate, vaccines etc seems to have been invested in by Donald Rumsfeld. There was a story about a biotech that makes the Anthrax vaccine that I actually WORKED FOR floating around once and some nitwit was claiming that Rumsfeld was on the BOA...ummm not quite!!! :rofl:

[LeftishBrit]

2. And did you know...

that the (British) Medical Research Council do nothing but persecute people who search for truth?

[lizerdbits]

3. Did it include the "fact"

that it turns to formaldehyde in your body? I overheard a PT tell a client that at the gym and just laughed. Had it not been really early and I didn't have to go to work I might have said something about getting your health information off the internets. One of my coworkers said if that's true she should be fully preserved for eternity at this point.