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No, new study does not link gas stoves with asthma in children
Junk Science ^ | Junk Science Staff

Posted on 01/10/2023 10:36:50 PM PST by NoLibZone

Here is the study. The abstract is below.

Here is a quick summary of the some of study’s principle flaws, in no particular order:

It’s not actual research on children. It is a meta-analysis of previously published (and ignored) studies — a study of otherwise unpersuasive studies. The authors did a literature search for previous epidemiologic studies on gas stoves and asthma in kids and then just mixed those results together in an effort to contrive statistical significance. This is a bogus technique for a number of reasons including publications bias in the component studies — i.e., studies with null results aren’t published. The study results, including the component studies, are weak statistical associations — i.e., noise range correlations. The study results, likely including the component studies, are not statistically significant either. Asthma is an allergic disease.

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.

If none of that means anything to you. you need to read “Junk Science Judo: Self-defense Against health Scare and Scams.”


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KEYWORDS: biden; cooking; electric; energy; gas; gasovend; gasstoves
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To: ronnie raygun

So everyone should start feeding their kids fast food takeout instead. That will make them fat and lazy thereby easier to control once on welfare.
I will be putting a wood cook stove in the new house.


41 posted on 01/11/2023 5:06:52 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: NoLibZone

Another way to lessen the demand for fossil fuels.


42 posted on 01/11/2023 5:26:06 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: NoLibZone

Just like the media...they make stuff up to further their agenda and to scare people. “For the children”! /s


43 posted on 01/11/2023 5:58:48 AM PST by JoJo354 (We need to get to work, Conservatives!)
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To: NoLibZone; All

It’s accelerating. Background:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4122075/posts?page=129#129


44 posted on 01/11/2023 6:35:18 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: NoLibZone

Bttt


45 posted on 01/11/2023 6:35:33 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: NoLibZone

Generally speaking, if you can do the opposite of what Joe Biden is suggesting, then you are in good company. They want everybody to go out & buy an electric car, too. If you can’t afford to switch from a gas range to an electric, it’s unlikely you could afford the EV either


46 posted on 01/11/2023 6:40:07 AM PST by oldtech
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

” There’s no doubt we are in Obama’s third term.”

Given what the government continued to do under Trump, some would call it his fourth.


47 posted on 01/11/2023 6:48:54 AM PST by _longranger81
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To: DeplorablePaul

“Emotional blackmail. Who wants to choke kids.”

The very same people who want to let little kids decide “I’m a girl now” or “I’m a boy now” and chop off perfectly healthy organs. Or take little tykes to see mental misfit men dressed in women’s clothes and grotesque makeup.

We should not let them get away with this horrendous hypocrisy. You cannot protect kids from a zero-risk ubiquitous fuel at the same you destroy them emotionally and mentally.


48 posted on 01/11/2023 6:58:48 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: NoLibZone

The premise is absurd just on the face of it. There is not even anecdotal evidence to suggest the claim.

We have cooked with gas for decades and suffer no ill effects. I don’t know of a single person who has ever suspected any problems at all.

As for the leaks and poor ventilation cited, that is a different problem on par with bare wires and bad switches or breakers. Fix it.


49 posted on 01/11/2023 7:05:25 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Sequoyah101

“Leaks and poor ventilation” — these problems have not existed in homes built in the last 50 years due to stringent building codes. The codes require extensive testing of gas lines for leaks and require kitchen ventilation.

If a few people do not maintain their equipment, the government’s solution is to take all natural gas away from all people. It is utterly insane.


50 posted on 01/11/2023 7:18:23 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yes, lines seldom leak. The claim was that valves in the stoves are leaking. So fix them instead of banning them?

Yup, about as absurd as...well, I can’t think of many things more stupid except the rest of this gooberment.


51 posted on 01/11/2023 7:44:44 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: NoLibZone

So the study has no biological plausibility.

That’s how you know Biden is involved with it.

Biden = No Plausibility


52 posted on 01/11/2023 8:24:30 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Sequoyah101

“Yup, about as absurd as...well, I can’t think of many things more stupid except the rest of this gooberment.”

AMEN! It is full-blown tyranny.


53 posted on 01/11/2023 8:50:02 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: ifinnegan

They want to ban gas stoves for us.

More control freakishness.


54 posted on 01/11/2023 8:51:46 AM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: Wonder Warthog

I have gas heating also.

That problem in Texas came as a surprise to me also, but of
course not as big a one as it was to you.

I hear conflicting reports. Do they have that issue
addressed properly now?


55 posted on 01/11/2023 9:41:42 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DoughtyOne
"I hear conflicting reports. Do they have that issue addressed properly now?"

We had a sharp freeze spell recently where temps here in San Antonio got to 17F, but without sleet/snow like the first. No loss of either electricity or water this time...though things went better this time, I suspect there are still problems lurking.

56 posted on 01/11/2023 10:51:35 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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To: NoLibZone

Correlation is not causation, as the saying goes, which shoots the hell out of my theory that moving trees make the wind blow.


57 posted on 01/11/2023 11:01:07 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Wonder Warthog

Thanks for the mention. I’d feel the same way about the
soundness of the system after that blow out. Take care.


58 posted on 01/11/2023 11:23:09 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: NoLibZone

just home many restarants would be put out of business by banning gas stoves


59 posted on 01/11/2023 1:01:49 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Wonder Warthog
That gas stove saved our asses during the "big Texas freeze" when the windmills froze. Had to light it with a match, but it kept us somewhat warm when the electricity failed (couldn't run the gas furnace without electric power to the blower).

When we first bought our house, it had an electric stove. I got rid of it and put in a gas stove, so as to have backup heat source in the winter (seems like every winter when there's freezing rain we loose power, from anything from a couple of hours to three days).

I also have a fireplace.

60 posted on 01/11/2023 1:13:16 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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