Comment Re: Call me crazy if you must (Score 1) 65
Not crazy, just sadly inattentive: you didn't even manage to read to the end of the summary.
>The researchers also highlighted that the association was independent of underlying factors such as body mass index, hypertension, diabetes and lipid levels, which might predispose people to low-calorie products.
If you've looked at this kind of population level or meta-study work before, you'd know that it's expected for them to check for known or possible correlations across other factors and control for them. It's simple enough to compare prevalence of cardiac events across only subgroups with similar BMI, incidence of diabetes, etc, and you should be looking to see what factors were controlled for in the methodology when reading about this kind of study.
I suppose it's easy to convince someone that something could be a conspiracy when they don't know how anything works, and can't be bothered to read in order to find out.