<story><title>Two conspiracy theories about cola</title><url>https://dynomight.net/cola/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pirate787</author><text>For context on the Mexican cola, US cola had sugar as well until the mid 1980s.  The US sugar program restricts imports and keeps the domestic price for sugar high, which created a new market for milling corn into HFCS.  HFCS is uniquely an American invention that&amp;#x27;s the result of massive government subsidies for corn and price support for sugar.  If the government did not intervene in American sugar markets, cola would still be made with sugar imported from outside the United States.</text></comment>
<story><title>Two conspiracy theories about cola</title><url>https://dynomight.net/cola/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>giantg2</author><text>Maybe Emetrol is placebo, but it has worked for me in the past on a couple of occasions. This included 8 hours of vomiting no mater how hard I willed it to stop or other remedies I tried, and it didn&amp;#x27;t work on the first dose. It didn&amp;#x27;t seem like placebo to me, but I am grateful it worked either way.&lt;p&gt;One thing to note that isn&amp;#x27;t in the article, is that concentration can matter, so comparing one can to a 30ml dose of medication might not be a great comparison (although this still supports for the author&amp;#x27;s position that phosphoric acid is not added to cola to prevent vomiting).&lt;p&gt;Is the placebo effect applicable in infants? I would think that infants would not be capable of the understanding that something will make them better, and thus placebo wouldn&amp;#x27;t apply to them. Unfortunately this paper is pay-walled so we dont have details about the methods used, but the summary seems relevant.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jpeds.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;S0022-3476(51)80084-2&amp;#x2F;pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jpeds.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;S0022-3476(51)80084-2&amp;#x2F;pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>