[mfarris]

Here's one:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7521/abs/nature13...

There's lots more, but your ability to google is every bit as good as mine.

Folks skeptical of artificial sweeteners are not anti-science morons. Man-made climate change is real, vaccines are one of the great accomplishments of civilization, and the science is promising but not fully settled on GMOs.

Consuming artificial sweeteners is almost certainly healthier than consuming the sugar they replace, but that doesn't actually make them _healthy_.