Word: harmlessness
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...could not reach a decision. After the panel finally delivered a conviction, allegations emerged that jurors had discussed the case in e-mails among themselves and downloaded Internet material - serious breaches that could have invalidated the verdict. But the trial judge ruled that the jurors' alleged misconduct was harmless...
...Eschenbach to decide how to proceed. He may start from scratch and commission another report that includes the most recent findings on BPA; he may reject the panel's review and adhere to the FDA's original conclusion that BPA is harmless at current exposure levels; or he may ban the chemical from baby products, as the Canadian government did in April. Or he may draw no further conclusions about BPA until additional studies can be commissioned and completed to answer some unresolved questions...
...environment writer, I have always been doubtful of the value of "ecotourism." It seemed harmless at best, a scam at worst - a way to assuage the guilty conscience of travelers spending thousands of dollars to jet off to exotic locales. It was never clear to me, for instance, whether ecotravel was really any different from normal travel, except maybe for the involvement of more elephants and fewer cocktails on the beach. (And not even that, necessarily...
Matthias Stadtfeld, the lead author for Hochedlinger’s paper on the use of harmless adenoviruses, cautioned that the efficiency of producing iPS cells using this method is “already very, very...
...always boo La Marseillaise, just for the fun of watching the tight-asses wig out," says a 38 year-old, long-time, lilywhite French football fan who asked to be identified only as 'Foot-ex' in order to avoid any retribution. "It's harmless, but effective. Just look at the reaction today. You'd have thought the economic crisis had gone away...