Flawed Epidemiology Drives Stove Bans

Policy decisions about electrifying homes and banning gas stoves can be propelled by small, methodologically weak studies or mis-specified meta-analytic calculations that produce large, attention-grabbing numbers. When regulators (here, the Consumer Product Safety Commission) cite such figures without robust vetting, expensive and intrusive rules can follow based on shaky evidence. — This dynamic matters because it links technical epidemiological choices to large regulatory and fiscal outcomes and to public trust in both science and policy.