Good thing he wasn’t working with plutonium

While trying to determine if our insides have, in fact, been turned to formaldehyde, we came across this nugget:

"Sucralose (an artificial sweetener) was discovered in 1976 by a graduate student at King's College London. His head researcher had told him to test some compounds, but he misunderstood and tasted them instead." Via Discover magazine

So, should we stop drinking Diet Soda or not? Yes, but not necessarily bc of the sweeteners. Still haven't found anything credible linking aspartame to cancer, formaldehyde, lupus, premature telekinesiss, or any other disease. All the articles we found so far are identical to every other piece of chian mail we've ever received over the years. i.e., breathless letters that begin with "THIS IS SO TRUE" and "SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW", and dire warnings printed IN CAPITAL LETTERS. All the info seems to be the same paragraph, inserted over and over again across several sites.

... except for this one