To be fair to the study participants... this is more than likely a case of ‘experts’ setting out to study one thing (the safety of artificial sweeteners) and the results being skewed by other events... it’s the old ‘correlation isn’t causation’ argument. That they didn’t stop to consider whether their results had been compromised is comic.
In any case, you are fair in posting and presentation of the article, and it was a good find, thanks again.