Yeah, hard without the actual paper. Did they look at the sweetener, or just the carbonation? Could it be that people who drink regular soda get more heart disease because they get FAT? Then people who drink DIET soda get even more heart disease not because of the soda, but because those that chose diet are already so fat they decided to cut down on sugar (hence the diet drinking group is already more fat than the other)?
No way to tell without the paper, and pretty much any journalist writing about science is an idiot. There are exceptions (rare), but face it, people that go into journalism don't have the smarts for science or engineering in the first place.
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