But so are fears that alternative therapies may do harm for instance, by tempting patients to shun real medicine.
Before excoriating me for my own cynicism, I would defend by pointing out that the GOP has earned my questioning approach given the track record they have built in taking so many cynical steps that do the public harm for their own advancement.
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While there are plenty of repeat offenders I could put on this list, these five words in particular continually do more harm than good for businesses both fledgling and established.
While the ultimate impact will not be known for some time, we do know that the potential for harm to our fledgling recovery is great.
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Still, the fact that some or even a lot of people intentionally cause harm every day does not mean that Do No Harm is an unrealistic guideline for living responsibly.
How do we ensure that people who wish to do us harm are not eligible for benefits under the immigration laws, including this new bill?
What frustrates computer-security experts is that the features that make the Internet such an invaluable resource -- its openness and interconnectedness -- also make it easier for hackers to do harm.
Without its search business, it will not be possible for it to do this harm.
Doctors can continue to do no harm, while researchers brace themselves for exciting, and unsettling, times to come.
In September the United States Preventive Services Taskforce, a panel of medical experts, concluded that tests to screen for ovarian cancer do more harm than good.
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Indeed, Kelli Roberts, another researcher at Cornell, told the meeting that, taking all factors into account, growing switchgrass for biochar may do more harm than good.
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States who think they can fill their coffers by taxing these highly mobile individuals may find that their search for taxes will do more harm than good.
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And in the West, opinion-makers are quicker to acknowledge democracy's drawbacks and the apparent fact that contested elections do more harm than good when other preconditions for a well-functioning system are absent.
The potential for social media to do harm to investors became apparent last week, after a hoax used the Associated Press Twitter account to post the supposed breaking news that President Obama had been injured due to explosions at the White House.
Sluggish employment growth and high unemployment rates naturally add to new calls for protection that would do more harm than good.
To be able to use it tongue-in-cheek at this point suggests that we've come a long way and that there is less power for such language to do us harm when we appropriate it and make jokes out of it.
Therefore, to pay for what you do not need can harm the entire organization.
In any spill, the oil itself does not stay around long enough for it to do long-term harm, he argued.
Again, let me make clear: this government will do nothing to harm Britain's status as a magnet for the world's best students.
They often go from brashly demanding cures to learning that some treatments that seemed to help, like bone marrow transplants for breast cancer, turned out to do harm.
He had the best of intentions, and knew exactly what harm alcohol could do, but it was very difficult for him to throw away the thing that helped him most - namely alcohol.
Antidepressants, painkillers and promising new treatments for diseases such as multiple sclerosis can do serious harm.
Keep in mind that making personal sacrifices for a start-up can potentially do more harm than good.
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The virtuous 60, chosen among Canada's largest companies, will have passed tests designed to reflect the current standards of a small but growing number of investors who want their money to be a force for good (or at least to do no harm).
But because there is no belief that, for example, a nationalised bank can do anything but harm, there is never any "germ of the new" inside the measures proposed.
Informative articles in the latest issue include a list of 12 exercises that can do more harm than good and a personal essay from a woman training for the London Marathon.
The threat of an EMP attack is hardly the only reason for ensuring that ballistic missiles cannot be used to do harm to this country, but it is a particularly compelling one.
"Obviously, if I can play well for Rangers under Paul, it can't do any harm regarding my international prospects, " he added.
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Because of this, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended that men not even be screened for prostate cancer, since there is such pressure to undergo treatments that, for most men, do not benefit them but may cause them harm in the most personal ways.
You know, my hardest the hardest part of the job is to know that I committed the troops in harm's way and then do the best I can to provide comfort for the loved ones who lost a son or a daughter or a husband and wife.
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