Word: harmfulness
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...School committee members are rallying to RSTA's support, fearing the restructuring will harm the program before they have time to rethink and revitalize vocational education...
Cantabrigians made preparations as if a hurricane were approaching: taking a break from their usual program of hellfire and brimstone, preachers warned their congregations to put furniture out of harm...
...doesn't mean ecstasy is harmless. Broadly speaking, there are two dangers: first, a pill you assume to be MDMA could actually contain something else. Anecdotal evidence suggests that most serious short-term medical problems that arise from "ecstasy" are actually caused by pills adulterated with other, more harmful substances (more on this later). Second, and more controversially, MDMA itself might do harm...
...fundamental difference in attitude at work on this issue," says Graff. "The Europeans insist on a precautionary principle, which holds that unless you can scientifically prove that something is absolutely safe you should be cautious about introducing it. In the U.S., the onus is on proving that something causes harm rather than proving that it's absolutely safe. So it comes down to a clash between the can-do American ethos and the more skeptical or cautious European one." Adds TIME science editor Phillip Elmer-DeWitt, "In the U.S., the FDA has sufficient scientific prestige that the public will generally...
...should not be high on the list. Twenty years ago, however, diet soda seemed like lethal stuff--or at least the saccharin it contained did. According to studies at the time, saccharin was a direct cause of bladder cancer. Of course, in order for the sweetener to do you harm, it had to make up at least 3% of the gross weight of food you ate every day--no easy task for a substance consumed by the quarter-teaspoonful. Oh, and it also helped if you were a laboratory rat, the only creature in which the saccharin-cancer link...