It uncovered eight WHO panelists involved with assessing safe levels of aspartame consumption who are beverage industry consultants who currently or previously worked with the alleged Coke front group, International Life Sciences Institute (Ilsi).

Their involvement in developing intake guidelines represents “an obvious conflict of interest”, said Gary Ruskin, US Right-To-Know’s executive director. “Because of this conflict of interest, [the daily intake] conclusions about aspartame are not credible, and the public should not rely on them,” he added.

6 points

(chemical in consumer product) is made of SCIENCE therefore it is OBJECTIVELY GOOD and if you have issues with that chemical you must be a TREE HUGGING CRYSTAL HEALING HIPPIE!

Heard that sort of shit about glyphosate too, especially on

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these kinds of conflicts of interests need to be disclosed properly, clearly and up front, and folks need to be critical until its sufficiently peer reviewed

whether other findings agree with these isnt relevant, its still extremely important that folks know that corporate interests might be colouring any given paper

researchers in a given field are practically always going to have jobs with big players in those fields, but taking biases into account is still important for interpreting findings

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Did WHO know this before announcement? Lol

I mean … the people at WHO who hired them, must have known? (Conflict of interest is important in these kinds of health subjects)…

Of course they still tell diabetics to keep chugging down carbs and just buying more and more insulin…

I dont trust them.

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Would this fall under the purvey of regulatory capture?

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The WHO is rotten to the core. They are in bed with WEF corpos.

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