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Corn syrup appears to be no worse than sugar, health-wise. Interesting case of a health-related panic not based on any actual science.
You're fighting hyperbole with hyperbole—not based on adequately conclusive science is not the same as not based on any actual science.
Actual science is being performed, sure. But the results of that science don't seem to be inconclusive at all. At least if this article is to be believed, there's no well-done study supports the hypothesis that HFCS is worse than sugar. Maybe there is such a study and that article doesn't mention it. That would be sad but typical of journalism.
A priori, we should have only a slight belief that corn syrup is worse for you than sugar (on the theory that occasionally manufactured foods are worse than their natural equivalents but rarely is the reverse true). What studies caused these authors to update on these priors towards the HFCS-is-worse view?