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That blog doesn't read well I'm afraid. First of all, in the title it's something about climate, to then switch to Asthma. (And ctrl-F there is no mention of cl
by yk 4y ago
That blog doesn't read well I'm afraid. First of all, in the title it's something about climate, to then switch to Asthma. (And ctrl-F there is no mention of climate in the original paper.) Then there is some ranting about "activists" to which I will come back in a moment.
Afterwards the post identifies flaws in several studies the meta-analysis did not use correctly. I would at that point expect some intuition what went wrong, instead of just namedropping some method without much further explanation. The style written here, including dropping some studies in the reanalysis smacks of cherry-picking. (Not saying that they did, I didn't do enough work. It is just I don't expect that doing that work is a wise use of my time.)
And finally ranting about "activism." In general the expectation of a asthma research as an activist is, that the activism is motivated (or at least not in conflict) with a deep understanding of asthma.
- nostrebored 4y agoIronically this reads as cherry picking. The author's criteria is explicit > only touching on those sources that have to do with asthma and gas stoves The tie in to climate happens at the end of the article -- where the authors have a conflict of interest (involvement with organizations seeking zero carbon buildings) and regulators near-immediately use this as a reason to move towards banning gas stoves for consumer safety. Which is absurd -- if the causal relationship between gas ranges and asthma were around 11% this would be apparent. The activism in this case is not about asthma, it's about weaponizing asthma.
- Natsu 4y agoFun thing is that one of the authors of the MDPI piece doen't seem to realize that there's a problem if you add up a bunch of PAFs and get something over 100%. How, exactly, does anything cause more asthma than actually exists without the stats being bogus? https://twitter.com/bradytoday/status/1610639235505336322 https://twitter.com/bradytoday/status/1610639235505336322
- abliefern 4y agoThe blog post clearly states what the link to climate activism is according to the blog author. The conflict of interest of the meta study authors and suspected opposition to gas stoves on climate grounds by the regulator is clearly stated.
- FooBarBizBazz 4y agoCalling this "climate activism" cheapens the phrase; that's not what this is. This is industry lobbying from a bunch of people who want to sell electric appliances. They'll be perfectly happy if these things are powered with heaps of bituminous.