These cases illustrate how, despite best intentions, studies that link genetic variation and human difference can lead to unsubstantiated and often harmful assertions in peer-reviewed literature and mainstream media.
At times, therefore, the scourge of 20th-century mendacity told useful lies instead of harmful truths, illustrating his own assertion that history stopped in 1936 - after that there was only propaganda.
But, so far as I know, not one had the guts to publicly oppose reparative therapy for masturbation or Hall's assertion that it is harmful.
Which quickly rubbishes South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak's assertion that "obscene materials and harmful information that can be easily accessed on the internet are singled out as one cause inciting sex crimes".
Such limits are based on the assertion that long work hours are harmful to employees' health and lead to higher rates of injury and illness.
6 Cigarettes labelled 'light' or 'mild' have been marketed as less harmful to health due to reductions in toxin exposure, an assertion that has been thoroughly repudiated by epidemiological data indicating that smoking these products has little or no health benefit, 7 as smokers tend to compensate for reduced delivery of nicotine.
In the former situation, the fact that allegedly harmful conduct falls outside the statute's scope belies a governmental assertion that it has genuinely pursued an interest "of the highest order". Ibid.
There is no scientific justification for Ms. Goodman's assertion in her letter ["Even 'Background' Levels of Radiation Are Harmful," June 25] that "very low doses of background radiation probably account for 25percentt or more of a vast group of afflictions that occur because of inherited predisposition".
However, the observation is at variance to assertions of some critics that religion is either irrelevant or sometimes even harmful to medical progress and good clinical care [ 18, 19].
These two studies and others that are recounted in the Armstrong and Green paper strengthen the authors' assertion that the oft-touted advice to chase market share to achieve greater profitability is a harmful myth.
Because facts don't back up conservatives' assertions that government limits freedoms, they have had to make up their own facts about the harmful effects of taxation.
