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The Misinterpretation of Cancer Stories
World Health experts have classified the artificial sweetener aspartame as being possibly cosinogenic or causing cancer. But they say that the current advice on how much to have in a day does not need to be changed. Why do these cancer stories always produce so many different headlines, becomes such a polarised source of debate? Well, I'm joined by David Spiegelhalter, who's the Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge.