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Have you ever been to a snooty cocktail party (1) and ordered a Diet Coke from the bar only to get the look?

Join hosts Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein as they break down these stories on Episode 46 of the Science Dispatch podcast:

   

The world of chemical scares is a bit like a perpetual horse race, usually with the same tired old horses –various chemicals – in the same race.

What They Are

Did you ever take a sip of a Diet Coke and have it taste like death (1)? Not at all sweet. Kind of sour-metallic-motor oil-rotting corpse-tasting?

The headline promises information about a "NEW LANDMARK STUDY" linking aspartame consumption to lymphoma and leukemia in humans. Now that's a global crisis if I ever heard one!

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