If Sugar Doesn't Kill You, Artificial Sweeteners Will - Unless They Won't

Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 12:01 in Mathematics & Economics

Each year, someone writes a book scaring people about food and that gets covered in the New York Times and then a whole rash of junk science studies get produced affirming exactly what the book said. This has been  a tradition since the 1960s, when Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring, a book of anecdotes and scary claims about how someone she heard of sprayed DDT in her cellar and died, surrounded by science jargon about carcinogens. read more

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