Well, it seems like a national pasttime to generate fear of artificial sweeteners. There was that whole Internet aspartame hoax that still lives on. Its funny, people don't question taking synthetic vitamins, derived from natural things I'm sure, or supplements with little quality control or oversight, but they're scared to death of using something that has to go through huge regulatory hoops to be proven safe in many, many countries.

And that's fine, no one needs to consume anything that they're wary of, but I think the hoaxes and Internet fear-mongering based upon made up stuff is pretty bad.