Re:New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Bui...
by timr on Saturday April 29, 2023 @04:17PM
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Those indoor air pollution studies are extremely questionable. They fail to control for even the most basic confounders (e.g. indoor air filtration, which has improved over time; most of the studies in the asthma paper were old, and the authors noted that the effect size was much higher before 2000). In general, the asthma finding was trash -- a meta-study based on low-quality, observational data which didn't even bother to take into account the quality of the underlying work -- and shouldn't have been published anywhere.
At this point, you should just assume that anything you see with the words "observational research" is wrong. it used to be a sort of questionable research that people mostly ignored or used for hypothesis generation, but now that political teams are picking up the mantle of "science" to justify whatever they want to do anyway, these kinds of bad papers get spread widely with little critical analysis.
Someone else posted this link up-thread, and I think it's a reasonable summary of the current data:
https://peterattiamd.com/putting-out-the-fire-on-the-gas-sto...
Induction is fantastic and even superior to gas in some ways (even faster for boiling water, for example). While some may still prefer gas, given that induction gives instant power and is more powerful, I have a hard time believing that it results in a "large cost to lifestyle".
Besides, gas stoves actually cause a significant amount of indoor air pollution, which may be more relevant than the climate change impact. They are quite literally bad for you: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/have-a-gas-stove-how-to-...
> Children living in households that use gas stoves for cooking are 42% more likely to have asthma