[Stoves] report with dissapointing results from cleaner cookstoves (Andrew) - Malawi

Thu Dec 8 00:15:48 CST 2016

Ron:

If you consider my writings rants, I submit Lancet and GACC are plain
liars.

Learn and respect science, that is all I ask of you.

"Honest stove research" does not belong to these suited-skirted gangs of
"public health". Enough said.

Just because so-called "scientists" publish "peer-reviewed" journal
articles doesn't make the product safe from an examination of facts and
methods. If you can justify these inane results. present your arguments,
otherwise declare that you have neither the interest nor the competence to
read WHO nonsense in detail.

Nikhil

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On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Ronal W. Larson <rongretlarson at comcast.net>
wrote:

> List,  cc Nikhil, Crispin et al
>
> I consider this to be the single least professional document I have yet
> seen on this list.  This is to tell anyone agreeing with Nikhil that his
> rants and ill will towards (apparently) everyone working on stoves do not
> coincide with anyone else’s thinking that I know in this business.  He has
> some strange mental aberration that is beyond my comprehension.
>
> It is too late at night to go into detail - but I will do so tomorrow - on
> at least the 28 emphasized words/topics below.  I repeat - I am embarrassed
> that anyone would treat honest stove research in the way he has done below
> (and many earlier times).  There must be some explanation for his
> ill-well.  Anyone know?
>
> I repeat - anyone who believes all this animosity - please wait until you
> hear the other side.
>
> Ron
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Traveller <miata98 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ah, another report on "scientific" advance. I see scientists *regressing*
> to *infantilism*.
>
> Andrew asks, "Is it because there are other vectors of the  illnesses
> linked to poverty?" (Do Smoke-free Stoves Really Save Lives
> <http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38160671>, BBC News 7 December 2016)
>
> Possibly, as Roger has pointed out.
>
> Any more details depend on the *price*. I have been surprised so often
> over the last 15-20 years, I stopped being surprised.
>
> For one, the Malawi study "was expected to show children are less likely
> to die of pneumonia if they live in a home where food is cooked on a
> smoke-free stove rather than an open fire."
>
> Ah, *forget* about "other vectors". The very premise is *presumptuous
> beyond common sens*e. What does "live in a home" mean, and what does
> "less likely to die of pneumonia" mean? Where do these *pundits* get
> their baseline data and the methods of testing likelihoods for different
> samples?
>
> Kevin Mortimer says,""Exposure to household air pollution is a problem of
> poverty. If you're not poor, you're not exposed."
>
> What *nonsense*. Emissions from uncontrolled combustion of fuels occur
> within "homes" as well as other cooking places, and they spread "outdoors"
> where exposures can occur to the poor as well as non-poor.
>
> They
> <http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)32507-7/fulltext>
> set out with an *untenable, ill-defined* hypothesis and put 8500+
> Malawian households under the researchers' eyes (no data on researchers'
> eyes or *brains*) - "10 543 children from 8470 households contributed 15
> 991 child-years of follow-up data to the intention-to-treat analysis." They
> "found no evidence".
>
> It is *amazing* that the first photo in the Beeb story is of a closed
> smokey kitchen with open fire, and the other is of a one-pot "improved
> stove" OUTSIDE the home. Maybe Gill wanted to* allege* that even outdoor
> cooking with improved stove does not yield any measurable health benefits.
>
>
> ********
>
> BBC wonders *"Where does this leave a huge UN-backed project.. **"*.
>
> Depends on what the meaning of "backed" is and what the meaning of UN is.
> Yes, some unrecognized *Uber Nuts* - otherwise known as *GACC*, a project
> with no legal personhood - have been feeding "Annual Reports", quarterly
> reports, CEO's golden words to the *gullible* media, but that amounts to*
> glib propaganda*, nothing else. Now that Antonio Gueterres is at the helm
> of the United Nations, he should formally resign from this* gang o
> <http://cleancookstoves.org/about/our-team/>f Hillary lovers* who have *nothing
> better* to do than host fine-wine-and-dine opportunities. Now that the
> South Lawn is beyond reach after 44 days, I would be *happy* to serve
> them wood-fired pizzas at Comet Ping Pong, and measure their pneumonias and
> premature deaths. Beer for $10 a pint.
>
> Wait a minute! BBC Action <http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/about/funding> is
> a NEW IMPLEMENTER PARTNER
> <http://cleancookstoves.org/about/news/11-27-2016-new-partners-november-2016.html>
> of GACC and is funded by the same *delusional* donors who fund GACC
> (DfID, Govt of Norway), some more (US State Dept, EU) including some
> private companies (BMB Mott McDonald, DAI) who do "consulting" (which can
> mean expertise *cooked* to recipe).
>
> And, of course, by those *saviors* of the world looking for Golden Pills
> and fund the NIH/CDC kind of poverty *porn* by, ahem, "research", viz.
> Bill and Melinda Gateses.
>
> DfID also funded this "study", *passed off* as "hard science" to those
> *gullible* enough. Once you *imbibe* the GBD brew and get all
> *mushy-headed*, "hard science" is incarnated in BBC stories.
>
> *Blind* pundits *parroting* *platitudes* to the public.
>
> Nikhil
>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 17:07:06 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: Roger Samson <rogerenroute at yahoo.ca>
>> To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
>>         <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Stoves] report with dissapointing results from cleaner
>>         cookstoves
>> Message-ID: <2117102759.1561055.1481130426403 at mail.yahoo.com>
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>>
>> Hi Andrew and all
>>
>> I would have to read in more details the study and causes of pneumonia.
>> However it is known that most forms of pneumonia are linked to viral or
>> bacterial infections that spread from person to person.
>>
>> Its likely that indoor air pollution is not a primary cause of pneumonia
>> its weak immune systems and crowded living conditions ( like TB).  If you
>> look at community priorities indoor air pollution is not high on their
>> priority list compared to accessing better nutrition and health care.  You
>> might be better off to ventilate houses or work on improving food security
>> and nutrition in communities than installing expensive cook stoves if your
>> target is pneumonia.
>>
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Roger Samson
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> On Wed, 12/7/16, Andrew Heggie <aj.heggie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Subject: [Stoves] report with dissapointing results from cleaner
>> cookstoves
>>  To: "Discussion of biomass cooking stoves" <
>> stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
>>  Received: Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 11:45 AM
>>
>>  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38160671
>>
>>  It's a surprising result and I would like to know why
>> the cleaner  stoves used did not return a lower incidence of
>> respiratory infections.
>>
>>  Is is because there are other vectors of the? illnesses linked to
>> poverty?
>>
>>  The two? good results were that the cleaner stoves appear to be
>> safer  and more economical to use.
>>
>>  AJH
>>
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>>
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