Oh, Pepsi, What Hast Thou Wrought?

[Updated! See bottom of post.] As I continue to bake today, yearning for just a few minutes in Senator Inhofe's igloo, I've been keeping tabs on a saddening train wreck over at my old haunt, Scienceblogs. Before I brought the Loom to Discover, I blogged at Scienceblogs, which was hosted by the folks behind the now-defunct (?) Seed Magazine. There was a lot I enjoyed about that time, and I still keep tabs on a number of excellent bloggers still at Scienceblogs. Except that, as of today, a lot of them are no longer there. Here's the quick story: the powers that be at Scienceblogs thought it would be a good idea to sell Pepsi a blog of its own on the site, where its corporate scientists could tell the world about all the great nutrition science Pepsico is doing. Yes. Really. I'm totally sober as I type this. I ...