No, new study does not link gas stoves with asthma in children
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4122448/posts
Excerpt:
There are no allergens in natural gas.
So the study has no biological plausibility.
No one knows what causes asthma in children and so competing causes could not be ruled out.
The claim that gas stoves are responsible for 12% of childhood asthma - an epidemioogic concept called “attributable risk” - is entirely bogus because epidemiological studies can only be used to associated exposures with disease. They cannot be used to determine risk of disease because
(1) the underlying data is not representative of the population; and
(2) epidemiologic studies cannot be used by themselves to determine cause-and-effect relationships.
...and yet, here we are marching off to ban gas powered appliances... go figure...