Gas stoves became part of America’s culture wars

Re:Gas stoves became part of America’s culture wars by tptacek on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:50AM (#34506199)

Gas stoves were not proven scientifically to cause asthma in children, and are in fact a little unlikely to be causative. They're bad for the environment, but only marginally so.

Economist or no, this story is just going to be the nth recapitulation of the gas stove argument on HN, and we'd be better off not having it on the front page.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Gas stoves became part of America’s culture wars by CraigJPerry on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:55AM (#34506294)

https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/42/6/1724/737113?login=...

Google puts this meta analysis of 41 studies up top of the results so i assume it’s well linked to.

I can’t find reference to back up unlikely to be causitive, have you got a link handy for that? Google is not ranking it highly for any terms i try.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Gas stoves became part of America’s culture wars by tptacek on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:00PM (#34506379)

See Emily Oster's thing, to begin with, but there's more after that:

https://www.parentdata.org/p/gas-stoves-and-asthma

Also this thread:

https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1613336168061632512?s=20&t=...

If there's an effect, it doesn't seem to be a significant one.

At any rate, my objection is to your use of the words "proven scientifically". No, and that's for the most part not how science works anyways.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Gas stoves became part of America’s culture wars by malfist on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:54AM (#34506276)

Can you please provide a scholarly citation for your claim that gas stoves have not been proven to be a contributor of asthma in children? I know you can't prove a negative, but a published study that found no correlation between indoor gas stove and asthma would be a great starting point.

GP provided a scholarly citation for their statement, but you did not.

[ Parent | on HN ]