[troutman]

Originally Posted by wireframe

He'll be a first-ballot inductee into the crony capitalism hall of fame.

To me, his career highlight was aspartame approval https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donal...the-s_b_805581

This blog is a few years old, but I think aspartame is now considered safe:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/pep...ing-aspartame/

Like GMOs, aspartame has been widely studied and found to be safe, but remains the target of fear-mongering and conspiracy theories. It is not clear why this one food additive has continued to be the target of a fake controversy, other than that fears and conspiracies can take on a life of their own.