In Reply to: Another concise RGA response! posted by E-Stat on March 19, 2014 at 05:44:30:
"Considering results from the large number of studies on aspartame's safety, including five previously conducted negative chronic carcinogenicity studies, a recently reported large epidemiology study with negative associations between the use of aspartame and the occurrence of tumors, and negative findings from a series of three transgenic mouse assays, FDA finds no reason to alter its previous conclusion that aspartame is safe as a general purpose sweetener in food."
This is all BS. The use of statistics where results are done at the typical 5% level is subject to all kinds of selection problems. There is an obvious economic motive to do this selection. Real science, e.g. physics, uses statistics properly (e.g. 5 and 6 sigma) and even then runs into the occasional problem of screw ups (e.g. CERN "faster than light" neutrinos, but these results didn't survive peer review).
Tony Lauck
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Follow Ups
- RE: Another concise RGA response! - Tony Lauck 07:08:45 03/19/14 (3)
- RE: Another concise RGA response! - E-Stat 07:16:47 03/19/14 (2)
- RE: Another concise RGA response! - Tony Lauck 07:27:28 03/19/14 (1)
- Ok - E-Stat 08:12:05 03/19/14 (0)