Buck, you're quite wrong. The best thing to do is to reduce the cola content in a drink by replacing it with rum!
Jokes aside, if the scare is for real, it's quite a serious issue. I wasn't aware it had been given coverage in nutrition journals. And I'm usually quite sceptical about these matters: as Andy M points out, lots of these stories turn out to be wrong in the end. On the other hand, when I lived in Britain, I stopped eating beef years before mad cow's disease hit the general press because it was being reported in science journals.