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Red Bull secretly funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into the pockets of so-called "reputable" scientists. They churned out bogus papers downplaying the risks of energy drinks (www.theexamination.org)

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 23 hours ago

tl;dr: a bunch of vodka redbulls are probably really bad for you, but Red Bull has been controlling the publishing so it's hard to say for sure. But the bad cases they cite are someone who got trashed and went swimming, someone who binged all day, and a 14-year-old girl. It doesn't sound like one or two vodka redbulls are going to be significantly worse than just a regular night of drinking. No one drinks red bull or vodka thinking it has no health impact to start with.