Why the artificial sweetener in your favorite diet drink could be dangerous

USA Today's Wall Street Columnist says dumping aspartame drinks might be a good idea. Because USA Today is so huge, if it is in that paper, it has been fact checked and vetted, and then approved by the legally conscious editors, and therefore, in this day and age of Roundup still being approved, it must be true...

It took seven years for that proposed approval to overcome allegations that aspartame could cause mental retardation, brain lesions and neuroendocrine disorders, along with objections to toxicology tests said to be misleading. Just to be on the safe side, you may want to ditch that zero-sugar drink. Diet sodas are not the lesser evil; they are just as evil as regular soda, and some argue they are actually worse – here are at least 10 ways diet soda could be killing you.