https://junkscience.com/2023/01/no-new-study-does-not-link-gas-stoves-with-asthma-in-children/
By Steve Milloy – JunkScience.com
The new study the Consumer Product Safety Commission wants to rely on to ban gas stoves is classic junk science.
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. It is a meta-analysis of previously published (and ignored) 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. 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.
If none of that means anything to you. you need to read “Junk Science Judo: Self-defense Against health Scare and Scams.”
No… a new study does NOT link gas stoves with asthma in children.
It's just classic junk science.
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— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) January 10, 2023
