I wanted to start this in a new thread because I feared it would get lost in the thread of the original post.
Here's a question a scientist would ask: did we as a nation see a spike in cancers, especially in cancers of a certain type, after the introduction of NutraSweet?
Think about it---people are consuming literally tons of the stuff and have been since it replaced saccharin. If it were carcinogenic to any appreciable degree then we as a nation would have seen a huge spike on cancer deaths. And there's been time to see this result even if it were only visible in the long-term. Hasn't NutraSweet been on the market for at least 20 years?
Do we have the cancer data to support saying it's bad?