Word: uselessness
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...flaw is that advisers freshman year range from unhelpful to utterly useless," Abraham says...
...Seven years ago, most clinicians in traditional care would have said complementary medicine is irrelevant," Eisenberg said in his opening remarks. But now, he said, physicians are bowing to market forces and the realization that some techniques that were considered useless may have real health benefits...
...commit ourselves to figure out what is useful, useless, safe, and unsafe, we will create a better model of health care for the next generation," Eisenberg says...
...other cases fragmentary intelligence can be useless. In the investigation of last October's attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, for example, Osama bin Laden has long topped the list of suspects, thanks to intelligence linking the bombing to his camps in Afghanistan. But court-worthy evidence showing a direct bin Laden role is hard to come by. More damning is the case of the 1998 U.S. cruise missile attack on the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum. The U.S. said it had proof chemical weapons were being produced there, but both CIA and State Department officials have since...
...best evidence against terrorists will always come from spies or turncoats. But aren't intelligence agencies reluctant to expose such "assets," in a trial, which tends to render them useless in the ongoing battle with the terrorist organizations they'd come out of, or had infiltrated...