Aspartame: Not the Devil Incarnate but Not A Godsend Either (opens in new tab)

Long before “wellness influencers” honed the art of spreading misinformation on the internet, the public was at the mercy of being befuddled by hoaxes through chain emails. Way back in the 1990s, I was the recipient of one of these from “Dr.” Betty Martini in which she described a speech given by one Nancy Markle at the “World Environmental Conference” in which she claimed that the artificial sweetener aspartame was the cause of multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, seizures, brain tu...