A Monster Win for Energy Drinks: New at Reason

July has been a bad month for those leading the foolhardy charge against energy drinks.

Earlier this month saw the quiet but welcome dismissal of a set of lawsuits against Monster, the maker of popular energy drinks. The suits, filed earlier this year by Morgan & Morgan, a Florida-based law firm, claimed just two cans of Monster could be deadly.

The news is particularly noteworthy because the media loudly trumpeted the purported dangers of energy drinks in the wake of the lawsuits. A Daily Beast piece on the lawsuits, typical of the tone of some reports, described the lawsuits’ target under an ominous (and false) heading: “death juice.” Baylen Linnekin explains more.

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