Global Energy Balance Network, Coca-Cola's sham health-research group, may officially be dead , but that doesn't mean all of Coke's fun fake science has to stop! After a "landmark" study claimed last November that diet drinks had a "neutral" to "even beneficial" effect on weight when compared to water, the Sunday Times looked into a few things and found this team's research was funded by - surprise! - an institute made up of Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestl, and other food-industry executives. Three of the five officers at the International Life Sciences Institute in fact work for Big Food.