And so what happens when the science is wrong and the methodology is incorrect.

We all know the standards of experimentation rely on consistent results .

What happens when the factor you are testing for varies from person to person and incident to incident?

What if it reacts with a cofactor that no one is testing for?

What does one do when told by some underemployed writer and office worker (what better example of the scientific profession could one ask for) that the real pain and symptoms they are feeling in the here and now are merely the result of a discredited idea. And that they are not suffering any pain . They are merely hysterical.
And the hurt is simply psychosomatic. this from anonymous expert that has never even witnessed the symptoms.

I am sure Torquemada had his justifiable logic, too.

One of us has a dog in this fight. The other is defending food additives (god knows, they are such a GOOD thing to put into your family's food) in situations he know not a thing he can't cut and paste out from studies sometimes funded by the industry at fault.

gala

MSG kills. My wife and millions of others are living proof. The founder of www.truthinlabeling.org is living proof, as he nearly died from consuming food containing MSG (you can check out his story on his site). Don't try to tell me that it's all crap, sir, as I live with this everyday. My wife has spent over a decade talking to doctors and specialists. The TRUTH is that MSG is dangerous and millions of us have to avoid it at all costs, or else we suffer. Just because you are fortunate enough to not be sensitive to Glutamate doesn't mean that there is not such a thing as Glutamate sensitivity. Do a little research about those who suffer from this.

As for science -who is doing the studies? Who is funding them? Why is MSG used at all? Are you going to trust your own feelings or believe what some study says when it contradicts your experience?

MSG as a "flavor enhancer" works on your brain in a very clever way: it enhances "good" taste while suppressing "bad" taste. What does this mean for you? What does this mean for industry? It means they can use lower quality, less fresh ingredients. It means you buy lower quality, less fresh ingredients. How appetizing is that?

If you were sick and you did not know it, would you seek a cure?

If you get used to your illness, are you still sick?

Someday if you are unlucky enough to have to answer those questions for yourself you might find that MSG played a part in it.

MSG has not been used for centuries.
It was isolated and developed after world war 2.

The Japanese, among the world's largest consumers of MSG, have found a direct correlation between the increasing incidence of near-sightedness and amount of tonnage of MSG being consumed.
In Thailand it is banned from school lunches .We haven't manged to protect our own kids. Increasingly asthmatic and burdened with learning disabilities as they are.
There is growing evidence that there is a correlation of MSG intake and the incidence of macular degeneration in the elderly.
And there is a possibility that sensitivity to it is crossing the placenta barrier, making generation susceptible at an earlier age.

It also affects the respiratory system, creates mental confusion and depression, and causes significant sinus pressure problems.

How do I know? I've had to deal with its consequences for the past fifteen years.
Days lost to horrendous headaches, near emergency room situations, sinus pain so intense that nothing can alleviate it--all because there is an additive hidden in American food that has no significant use and makes one out of ever six people symptomatic.
Some of us just know the hard way why we are feeling so poorly after some meals.

There is one thing that separates the people writing pro and con about MSG here.
Once you find it's making you seriously ill and that the government food standards have been lowered to way below what they were ten years ago, you have to literally take your life into your hands when eating fast or processed food where there is misleading labeling.

It's that so many people are now so ill because of something that doesn't even need to be in our food that is so criminal.
What it may prove to be doing to our kids and our elderly is not something that
can be cured, either.

gala

MSG kills. My wife and millions of others are living proof. The founder of www.truthinlabeling.org is living proof, as he nearly died from consuming food containing MSG (you can check out his story on his site). Don't try to tell me that it's all crap, sir, as I live with this everyday. My wife has spent over a decade talking to doctors and specialists. The TRUTH is that MSG is dangerous and millions of us have to avoid it at all costs, or else we suffer. Just because you are fortunate enough to not be sensitive to Glutamate doesn't mean that there is not such a thing as Glutamate sensitivity. Do a little research about those who suffer from this.

It sounds like you sell MSG and Nutra(sic)Sweet products. Cutting into your business? How about having those things cut into your life?

How many people are effected? 1 in 10,000? 1 in 100,000? How would you like to be one of them? A small ratio does not make it a zero percent chance of experiencing an effect. If you don't experience anything, consider yourself lucky. Then again, how do you know that you aren't experiencing anything?

Now try to track that down. What other things are in the diet that can produce similar results? MSG and Nutra(sic)Sweet both behave in similar ways - on the brain. Got a hazy feeling? Does the world seem like you are looking through a layer of Saran wrap?

Snacks and pop and Chinese restaurants were never high on my list. I got lucky - I was able to eventually make an association between what I was feeling and what I was getting into. I got tuned in enough to realize when something was happening - then, like clockwork, a look at the label reveals MSG. Or, as the case may be, Nutra(sic)Sweet.