I do not trust a Searle employee or department regarding the toxicity of aspartame.
Nor do I trust a Monsanto employee or department regarding the ‘safety’ of Round-up-ready corn or other GMO’s.
Nor do I trust that Hillary will get to the bottom of the Benghazi attack.
Nor do I believe that I can keep my Doctor if I like him.
My opinion: do your research.
I stay away from aspartame and GMO’s.
Just keep in mind that the plural of anecdote is not “data”. Searle tried to recruit enough people with complaints to do controlled studies, but there were never enough to design a statistically valid , double-blind study. So if it gives you a headache don’t use it, but there is no scientific basis to call it a poison.
What brand of tin foil do you use for your hat?
You can’t distrust everything.
GMO foods are what all grains and most vegetables are. Original potatoes were inedible poison. Tomatoes too. Corn , peppers, wheat soy beans, rice; all were modifies by man. The Monsanto and DuPont and Dow innovation was to modify seeds in a shorter time frame with science. That is already changing the world and its food supply.
I guess you don’t trust applied science.
Lying politicians should generate mistrust. Practical scientific successes, just because they are engineered by a big corporation, should be judged by results.
Science is hard. You should continue avoiding it.