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Assume also that there is a persuasive rationale for having available for public consumption a nonnutritive sweetener. This rationale rests on the large body of actuarial statistics, which, in a general way, states that those who are overweight die sooner than those who are not, bearing out an old aphorism I learned as a graduate student: "The thin rats bury the fat rats." If, indeed, nonnutritive artificial sweeteners could contribute to the lengthening of the lifespan of the average citizen, regardless of exactly how long that might be, then there would be posed an issue of policy: What degree of risk is acceptable in order to achieve the benefit of the statistical
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It is not that I hold any prejudice in that regard, because I have long felt that the experimental basis for the previous FDA action derived from a set of experiments that had been badly designed in the first instance, were inconclusive with respect to the actual findings, and did not seem, to me personally, to warrant any action at the time. In any case, in a great display of confidence in the Academy (sic!
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The subjects before us have aroused rather a remarkable amount of public interest from time to time, and a great deal of emotion among some. It would surely enliven this Forum if some of that emotion were to be revealed during the course of these two days.
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