Word: harmfulness
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...these conferences remained either closed to the press or operated with unusual rules of confidentiality which served to inhibit public discussion and understanding of recombinant DNA research. Moreover, many scientists did not even consider the public's right to have input to regulating research that could cause them harm. Dissenting scientists, those who questioned most closely the hazards of such research, were not invited to the conferences...
...regulation: these same scientists stand to profit considerably from their research through shares in corporations they set up to market their research. More fundamentally, scientists used their considerable lobbying influence to circumvent the principle that the people who pay for their experiments have a right to be protected from harm and to contribute to the decision-making process...
Lear said T.V. does its greatest harm by spreading the notion that "you are nothing if you're not number...
...deferring to the meaning given great bodily injury by popularly elected lawmakers. "Personal repugnance toward these crimes cannot be a legitimate basis for rewriting the statute as it was adopted by the legislature," she wrote. Stanford Criminal Law Professor John Kaplan agrees: "Rape, in itself, shouldn't be bodily harm. I think that's what the legislature meant. There's a whole line of cases about this...
...review is to balance the harm done by the companies' support of the apartheid system against the good it produces through progressive labor practices...