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Gas Stove Alarmism Fails

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#r_donway">Roger Donway</a> -- February 11, 2022

Ed. This piece is adapted from a LinkedIn post by Steve Everley, a communications advisor in the field of energy.

A study last month generated some scary headlines about the supposed “health risks” of your gas stove – an appliance that most homeowners prefer (and for good reason). 

If you were frightened, take a deep breath. You were misled.

First of all, the headlines that the study generated were alarming. Things like:

“Gas stoves are a threat to health and have larger climate impact than previously known, study shows” (CNN)

“Gas stoves in kitchens pose a risk to public health and the planet, research finds” (Washington Post)

“Stanford scientists find the climate and health impacts of natural gas stoves are greater than previously thought” (official release)

But it gets worse.…

The Institute for Energy Research: Becoming a Full Time Organization (Part III)

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#r_donway">Roger Donway</a> -- October 5, 2021

Ed. note: The third part in this series covers IER as a full-time organization, which occurred in 2002, some 13 years after its founding (in 1989). Part I covered the history of the Institute for Humane Studies–Texas, the forerunner to IER. Part II reviewed the formation and early history of IER in Houston, Texas.

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Q1. Roger Donway: The last interview explained your dual life as a full-time employee of Enron Corp. and the president of the “think bucket” IER. How did IER emerge full time?

A1. Robert Bradley Jr.: My Enron life ended a day after the company declared bankruptcy on Sunday December 1, 2001. I was part of the mass layoff the next day. Some 4,000 of us were let go where we were told to clear out our desks and leave.

WSJ vs. WSJ: A House Divided

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#r_donway">Roger Donway</a> -- December 21, 2020

“The news reporters give you public-relations fluff; the editorialists give you facts.”

Noam Chomsky, MIT’s famously anti-American professor of linguistics, used to say to his audiences something like: All my evidence comes from an ultra-Left source—The Wall Street Journal.

Audiences would laugh, but the joke was on them. Students of journalism know well that the Journal’s conservative reputation is based entirely on its editorial page. Its news pages, studies have shown, can tilt further to the Left than even the New York Times or the Washington Post.

Never was that schism more clearly displayed than on December 11, 2020.

A lead news headline screamed that the biggest “Green” companies were becoming larger corporations than the major oil companies. “The New Green Energy Giants Challenging Exxon and BP.”…

‘The Value of Books’ (David Boaz, Alex Epstein on Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S. Experience)

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#r_donway">Roger Donway</a> -- September 16, 2020

Ayn Rand’s Influence on Today’s Energy Debate

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#r_donway">Roger Donway</a> -- July 6, 2016

Julian Simon: A Pathbreaking, Heroic Scholar Remembered

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#r_donway">Roger Donway</a> -- February 12, 2013

Green Enron (Part IV Interview with Robert L. Bradley Jr.)

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#r_donway">Roger Donway</a> -- January 28, 2011

Enron as a Political Company (Part III: Robert L. Bradley Jr. Interview)

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#r_donway">Roger Donway</a> -- January 20, 2011

Expanding Energy Horizons (Part II: Robert L. Bradley Interview)

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#r_donway">Roger Donway</a> -- January 12, 2011

Libertarianism and Energy (Part I: Robert L. Bradley Jr. Interview with Professor Stephen Hicks)

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#r_donway">Roger Donway</a> -- January 7, 2011