To make sure the conclusion that MSG is harmless would be beyond reproach, glutamate-industry researchers guaranteed that subjects would react to placebos with the same reactions that are caused by MSG. They did that by using aspartame as the toxic ingredient in their placebos, which worked well for them because the aspartic acid in aspartame and the glutamic acid in MSG cause virtually identical reactions (as well as identical brain damage). Having set that up, glutamate-industry researchers (and the propaganda artists who quote them) will say “These people aren’t sensitive to MSG, they reacted to the ‘placebo’ too.”
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It was my honor, as a fellow Journalist, to assist in the production of this excellent News Story. As co-founders of the Aspartame Consumer Safety at the Senate Hearing on Aspartame Safety, James Turner, Esq. and I gave our Testimony Nov. 3, 1987. Turner and I appear at 8:00 min. into the story, to relate our meeting with top FDA Officials at the FDA Headquarters in Washington D.C. The video shows details of the meeting, in which FDA Officials refused to admit there was never any health issue with the sweetener – even for infants, children, pregnant and lactating mothers! Most of the people interviewed in the story were/are supportive of the work Turner & I do in our Aspartame Awareness Campaign, beginning in 1987-continuing to the Present. Thank you for calling attention to the work of researchers, consumers, doctors, scientists and others, by helping promote viewing of this video. Also, thanks to FOX TV Ch 5 in Washington D.C., for allowing us to furnish contacts for interviews and for sharing our story nationally. — With Gratitude, Hon. Mary Nash Stoddard (ACSN co-founder; Inductee Radio Hall of Fame; Award from Government of Mexico for research on sweeteners; Guest Lecturer at numerous Universities, including Southwestern University Medical School, Dallas TX; Court-Qualified Expert Medical Witness, 3/10/92, Lansing MI.)