Gas Stoves Killing Children?

The "gas stove"  controversy takes stupidity down to new levels.

Here's a "study" provided by CNN (https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/75): "Population Attributable Fraction of Gas Stoves and Childhood Asthma in the United States".  From the Abstract:

"Indoor gas stove use for cooking is associated with an increased risk of current asthma among children and is prevalent in 35% of households in the United States (US). The population-level implications of gas cooking are largely unrecognized."  (Note my underline of "associated" - we are not talking about causality...)

Simple fear mongering.  That's all this is...

What are we supposed to do, use an electric stove?  Wait, isn't that electricity (like the electricity for your electric car) coming from coal and natural gas burning power plants?

I did write about this twelve or so years ago.  These same morons pushing this crap told you that coal plants were killing you (see: https://lwgat.blogspot.com/2011/04/10000-us-deaths-per-year-from-coal.html).  If coal plants are killing you why use electric cars?  Aren't these same coal plants creating your electricity to replace your gas stove killing children?  

Which is worse...?

When I bought my first house the remains of natural gas piping in each room was obvious.  Prior to probably the 1960s this was how a house was heated in an urban area.  Each room with a small gas heater.

Conveniently for this "controversy" it's very hard to find historical facts like this on the internet.  Even more inconvenient is the history of "childhood asthma" (at least in Europe where I could find stats back into the 1970s).  Sadly there wasn't any asthma to speak of in the olden days - right along with the in-room natural gas heaters.

(From https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/26/4/647):

This chart, from Europe, shows no rise in asthma until the 1980s.  Well after gas was used continuously in your home in your room to keep you warm.  

While there are more people today than 1981 when asthma starts to increase on the above chart it seems unlikely that a five percentage point jump is simply due to more gas stoves.  After all, the ratio of gas stoves to electric favors electric over the last decade or so (see: https://www.statista.com/statistics/295477/unit-shipments-of-electric-gas-cooking-appliances/):

Further studies like this clearly show asthma rates varying on their own (https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/26/4/647).  Asthmatics were a small minority in the olden days (before the 1980s).  And I suspect if gas heaters (which emit far more combustion products than a stove) were killing children in the 1940s someone would have noticed.

This is "controversy" is complete and utter nonsense.

It's designed to focus your thinking on something besides myocarditis and people falling over dead from heart problems.