[sickoflibs]

These idiots dont know the difference between correlation and cause and effect, or they act like they dont. Maybe people with diet problems tend to drink diet soda.

[smokingfrog]

I want to super-size my fries, so I’ll have a diet soda to make up for it. ;)

[Rammer]

Well said. Thank you.

[I see my hands]

Thanks to the drug warriors who endorse and legitimatize these sorts of BS arguments.

Rulers love false logic.

[editor-surveyor]

Artificial sweetners raise hell with your endocrine system, for starters.

The rest of it is simply that those that make the poor decision to drink that crap also make hundreds of other bad diet decisions, like pasta, white bread, breakfast cereal, canola oil, soy oil, and who knows what else.

[I see my hands]

"These idiots don't know the difference between correlation and cause and effect"

Most (85+%?) adult humans don't know either concept exists. Of those who do many use the dynamic for evil and it will work on the 85% 100% of the time.

Same with the interchangeability of the use of absolute numbers and percentages when describing changes. 2,000,000,000 tons of glacier disappearing sounds bad until one learns that is .0000000000001% of the whole. (Glacial data made up.)

Should I lose a friendly two man contest of any sort I often recap to the victor thusly: You came in second to last while I was in second place.