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CYBER: The Government Isn’t Coming for Your Gas Stoves

CYBER: The Government Isn’t Coming for Your Gas Stoves

a year ago
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7gyb8/cyber-the-government-isnt-coming-for-your-gas-stoves

Recent remarks from Richard Trumka Jr., one of the three commissioners with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), sparked outrage in some circles. As it turns out, gas stoves aren’t great for you, and the CPSC has considered regulating them. Pretty soon politicians were sharing images of gas ranges above the words “Come and Take It.”

Why does it feel lately like the only war America is any good at fighting is the culture war? What is the actual science behind gas stoves? And why, while we’re asking national questions, does C-SPAN look so good lately?