Temple Grandin's mother Eustacia Cutler has issued a disturbingly harmful judgment of autism and autistic men in her article in the Daily Beast.
As psychiatrist and neurobiologist Steve Hyman put it, insofar as what counts as a disturbance worth treating always entails judgments about what is harmful for someone, diagnoses are "influenced by professional, social, and cultural values".
That means, in the absence of a human kind of critical judgment, that useless or harmful cultural behaviors are likely to accumulate more rapidly than adaptive ones.
Lindsay and Wells concluded that a relative judgment strategy is not necessarily harmful in target present lineups, but leads to higher rates of false IDs in target absent lineups.
In regard to direct-to-consumer pharmacogenetic testing, a good deal of caution should be taken by the consumer, because, without the knowledge and judgment of a trained clinician, harmful misinterpretations may occur.
There is some evidence pointing in this direction; neuroimaging studies of moral judgment have shown that imagining harmful acts against others engages brain regions with dense serotonergic projections, including the anterior cingulate cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), amygdala, and striatum.
In 2003, the EPA denied the petition, in effect saying that it would not pass judgment on whether automotive CO2 emissions were harmful.
Before a moral judgment can be made, the inappropriate and harmful intention of an actor has to be detected and linked to empathetic engagement with the deceived person.
Another egregious and exceedingly harmful example of a failure of peer review and editorial judgment at The Lancet was a 1998 paper by Scottish scientist Arpad Pusztai, which described feeding studies of genetically engineered and non-engineered potatoes to laboratory rats.
The suggestion that judgments of moral permissibility may influence us in describing a harmful result as merely foreseen contest the explanatory value of the principle of double effect.
