A comparison between consumer judgments and life-cycle assessment indicates that consumers rely on misleading, inaccurate lay beliefs to judge packaging sustainability and are therefore susceptible to making ineffective environmental decisions.
I'd always associated the term with the late John Kenneth Galbraith, the brilliant Harvard economist whose 1958 book, The Affluent Society, warned that an increasing share of America's economy was devoted to making ineffective products and promoting wasteful consumer spending.
For example, Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" became: "I'm sorry, I just had this idea – it's probably crazy, but – look, just as long as we're throwing things out here — I had sort of an idea or vision about maybe the future?" But while the article was widely shared, it did seem to imply that women make ineffective leaders.
Jeff Connaughton, a leading critic of the revolving door (see his book "The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins"), thinks Mr. Gensler is an exception to the usual rule that industry insiders make ineffective regulators.
"Perhaps new antibiotics are not the only way to combat biofilm infections if we could make ineffective older antibiotics active again," says principal investigator Christian Melander, an associate professor of bio-organic chemistry at North Carolina State University.
Insufficient evidence to make judgement Ineffective or probably ineffective interventions: indicating that the review found low or very low quality evidence of effectiveness or lack of effectiveness for an intervention.
Yet the rise of antimicrobial resistance is threatening to make them ineffective.
"Number 40, you used your shot fake enough times to make it ineffective.
This is a place to bury it, or at least to make it ineffective".
The development of antibiotics has saved billions of lives, yet the rise of antimicrobial resistance is threatening to make them ineffective in the future.
