Aspertame is the most-tested food additive ever. There has never been proven any causal link to cancer, not in the decades anyone has tried, and there still hasn’t— not even in this year-old article.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago (12 children)

So, I can keep drinking my beloved zero mountain dew?

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

There are other things in that which are bad for you.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

prove it

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would if I weren’t going to bed. Feel free to ignore me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's pretty interesting how many walls of text you'll write to defend an unnecessary additive but not to prove you should just drink water

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Another straw man.

A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction.[1]One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".

The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the opponent's proposition.[2][3] Straw man arguments have been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly regarding highly charged emotional subjects.[4]

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