Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group
Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group
Guidelines on Diet Coke ingredient from consultants tied to alleged industry front group an ‘obvious conflict of interest’, report says
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.
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This kind of shit makes people distrustful of science in general. Way to go, guys.
Don't worry, it's all worth it in the end because the corpos made more money! /s
It should make you distrustful of politics, lawmakers, lobbyists, and capitalism not science itself. Pure science is unbiased and systematic, by definition.
Science is done by people, and people are inherently biased at all times and about all things, consciously or not.
The issue here isn't bias, it's a conflict of interest.
True scientists understand that nothing is absolutely FACT unless absolutely no one can prove, or confidently suggest otherwise. True scientists constantly distrust science, because there's always a deeper level to it. We don't understand everything. The more we understand about one system in the human body, the more we understand about the others.