In February 2009 a group of 24 experts, which included eight professors of epidemiology and public health from around the world, wrote a letter to the Times, drawing attention to the serious harmful consequences of screening associated with the over-diagnosis of breast cancer leading to an increase in the number of mastectomies.
Sadly for all of us, there is strong scientific, psychological, and even spiritual evidence that immersing ourselves in negativity and divisiveness -- whether through politics, the media, our jobs, personal relationships, or anything in our social environment -- has serious harmful consequences.
Pathological Gambling (PG) is a behavioral addiction characterized by a loss of control over gambling which then becomes the subject's only interest, prevailing over all his/her other activities, causing serious harmful consequences to social, family, or financial life.
A recurring theme is the serious, harmful, and unethical consequences that data science can have, such as the COMPAS Recidivism Risk Score that has been "used across the country to predict future criminals" and is "biased against blacks," according to ProPublica.
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Adaption to BAC has a potentially harmful consequence.
Inhaling or swallowing gasoline can have serious harmful effects.
Contamination of the soil by heavy metals is a serious environmental problem with potentially harmful consequences to agriculture (Di Toppi and Gabbrielli [1999]; Robinson et al. [2001]; Certık et al. [2005]).
They point to a serious need to recognize the harmful consequences of bigotry and prejudice.
Heart-focused anxiety, defined as a fear of cardiac-related events and sensations based on presumed harmful consequences (i.e. serious arrhythmia, sudden cardiac death) can be measured by the Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire (CAQ) [ 17].
It has vast, harmful consequences.
