While the net effect on you may not be significant, you have to decide if you want to consume something that does not demonstrate heal benefits.
It could actually be having an effect and I could just not be noticing it because there are many other variables in play.
I suppose my comment was inspired by seeing posts about soda and weight gain and seeing comments of anecdotal evidence for people who have cut out diet soda and notice their weight dropping significantly.
I merely wanted to provide an anecdotal data point (however useless scientifically it may be) to try and give a perspective from the other side of things.
The parent was literally saying that he wanted to convey a different story to the ones commonly heard, in order to give a more balanced picture. Nowhere does that suggest anything about data points, just people sharing stories with different view points.
It's good to have a reminder that "anecdata" != real data every now and then, but in cases where you have a poster clearly acknowledging all that, bringing this up seems like little more than an out of place trope.