“While we cannot show causation.......”
BINGO, this study is bunk. Maybe fatter people who are already prone to heart diseases & stroke & diabetes are more likely to drink Diet Soda.
After all their victories against smoking, the health Nazis need a new target to stay employed. Until recently cigarettes didn’t have a safer diet equivalent. So they have to invent bad stuff about diet soda.
If we did have to prove causation, we'd use Climate Change methods.
Death certificate reads....COD...Diet Coke.