[Stoves] NIH and Gates Foundation-Funded Research to Measure Health Benefits of Clean Cookstoves

[Traveller]

Tom:

This is to cook White House South Lawn meals for the researchers of "links"
and "associations" that WHO and GACC can later call "causes".

It is a "multi-country trial to investigate the correlation between home
use of clean cookstoves using liquefied petroleum gas and its measurable
health benefits, particularly for women and children."

Duh!! Why? Don't most cooks want to switch to LPG? This isn't like
measuring - if at all possible - "health benefits" - whatever they may be -
of newfangled biomass or coal stoves, and then marketing them for the
health benefits. If users are going to switch to LPG or electricity anyway,
I suppose NIH could get into the health damage due to LPG and electricity.
After all, the Empire Promotion Agency has declared that GHGs "endanger"
American public's health.

Coming to think of it, maybe this is an ideological response to the
anti-carbon nuts who claim LPG is to be avoided as a "fossil fuel" and
"renewable biomass" be pursued exclusively, no matter its health and
environmental effects (land, water and labor use, plus reliance on
livestock for manure)?

Only in America. How amusing and sad.

This is a - what? Wild goose chase? Going up alleys known to be blind?

Or confirming the obvious, but subjecting the control group to continue to
suffer the health damage?

What are they going to do with the LPG option offered to users who
participate in the study? Take the cylinders and stoves back?

Why even bother, since Kirk Smith says, LPG is "the fuel that could save
millions of lives every year. • By definition!" (Environmental Health in
India:What are the issues and what is India doing about it?
<http://ehsdiv.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/Presentations/2016/SRU%20Oct%2016%20used.pdf>
Sri
Ramachandra University, Chennai October 6, 2016.)

All I can say is that the glory of Gates in the Global Burden of Disease -
Killing by Assumption - is enhanced by the US government. Keeps Washington
(DC and State) busy.

Nikhil








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