The manufacturers of aspartame, and the US Food and Drug Administration, insisted for years that aspartame did not break down into toxic byproducts during shipping and storage.
An eleven-year-old sixth-grader, Jennifer Cohen, took up that challenge for a school science project. She designed a clean, simple experimental protocol which shows that, in fact, aspartame does degrade in the container into formaldehyde and diketopiperazine.
Classic urban legend stuff about the whizkid who proves all the grownups wrong. That should raise a flag I would think.
Here's another similar story making the rounds for years now:
It's incredible! But true.
An Indian boy in his twelfth standard has disproved Einstein's "Theory of Relativity".
Shocked???Read on..
Sudarshan Reddy has theoretically proven the existence of a sub-atomic particle which can travel at speeds greater than that of light, thereby challenging one of the fundamental postulates of the "Theory of Relativity". In his recent research paper submitted to the "Institute of Advanced Physics (IAP)" at Trieste,(Italy) Sudarshan has proved the existence of a class of sub-atomic particles called 'leptons', which can travel faster than light.
...When physicists from Princeton University tried to measure Sudarshan's IQ with an IQ-meter (at the American Embassy in Delhi), the meter broke down, simply because it was not calibrated to measure such high IQ. This was reported 'Times of India'.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors...ciencewhiz.htm
Maybe Jennifer Cohen broke the IQ meter too. Perhaps we should use some of this pseudoscience and these wunderkinder to steer planes away from the Bermuda Triangle.
You need to sell as much as you can to this here wagon train of dumb European pioneers that don't know no better!
You may have a point.
