[enkid]

I haven't dived too deeply into the research, but no, it's not clear that diet soda helps people lose weight: https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/diet-soda-weight-gain-metab...

[eMSF]

There's an endless amount of worthless junk science and not-science around anything deemed by some as "too artificial". Especially when it comes to nutrition.

Hardly anything to dive into, though.