People who are NOT researchers but spreading the same shit everywhere on the internet are nothing but conspirationists. Including you. Because you contest what is officially recognized as OK, and do so without yourself having the medical authority/background to back up your claims. A random hodge podge of various, completely unrelated studies does not a point make. The experts of the FDA and various health authorities around the world have read the same studies as you do, and allowed MSG to be used in our food, and you have no authority to contest that.

I can bring up the same hodge podge about gluten and ask for a ban.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16436335

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18787912

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16423158

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1727768

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19664354

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20170845

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15497770

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16436335

Here you have equivalent material on gluten, hell you'll even find an association with schizophrenia. Let's fear-monger and stop eating bread and pasta !

With your really low, actually unscientific standard of using science studies, I can make it so that you'll never eat any food again, because I can find the same stuff about most food sources.

Since everything is so unsafe why don't you just kill yourself and be done with the unsafe misery that is life, cowering in your primal fears. You can't eat msg, but you can't eat gluten either, nor table salt, or sugar, or various carbohydrates, or milk.. oh but you can't eat some meat either because there are correlations to cancer. In fact, studies on meat have shown greater negative effects on the body than studies on MSG.

"A 2011 study of 17,000 individuals found that people consuming the most grilled and well-done meat had a 56 and 59% higher rate of cancer"
http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v106/n3/full/bjc2011549a.h...

Are you going to stop eating meat forever because of the relatively small increase of risk of getting cancer ?

This is why I call you a conspirationist. There are "natural" food sources, like red meat, that have been proven as much more dangerous (and it's still a relatively small danger, statistically speaking) than MSG yet people like you focus on MSG and Aspartame because FUCK ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTS right ? Red meat is natural so it's all good right ?

My point wasn't that I trust pagerank more than science. It's that there is a popular FOCUS on something that ISN'T MORE dangerous than stuff like read meat, and it's for a reason : fear mongering about anything that's artificial, man-made, call it whatever you like. The science speaks for itself because none of the study you will link to will prove MSG as a bigger danger than something like red meat. And yet, you don't see anyone trying to bring up a fear-mongering campaign against meat. The only people who campaign against meat are the psychotic vegetarians from PETA who do so in the name of a ridiculous "ethics", being against the killing of animals.

Seeing educated people like you spreading this bullshit against MSG doesn't help to educate most people about the reality of food. Most of your food sources can be toxic to a % of the population. Big fucking deal.