Sentences with phrase «more harm than good is»

The risk of doing more harm than good is a concern, said Ulrike Niemeier, a climate scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and her colleague Simone Tilmes, a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

So taking wheat bran which is what I took as a kid, which didn't benefit me at all and probably caused more harm than good is different than psyllium husk which is also pretty rough on the gut but is widely touted in herbalist and raw circles all the way to things like resistant corn starch which is a manufactured product that appears to work pretty well in some people but not others.

I think the idea that minority cultures are causing more harm than good is at the core of the white nationalist movement, and it's somewhat different than the issue of equal rights, as well as the root cause of the violence.

Twenty years ago I became convinced that one major source of the commitment to policies that often do more harm than good is the way economic progress is measured.

You do much more harm than good that's for sure.

Regulations that do significantly more harm than good are never appropriate, as the court concluded.

Until then, there is the risk of guesswork and more harm than good being done.

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Facebook has been trying to defuse questions about whether it can be trusted with the reams of personal information it collects to sell ads and whether its social network does more harm than good.

But Howroyd warns that if you're not careful, these communication tools can do more harm than good to your career.

But as bestselling author and Oprah - anointed happiness expert Shawn Achor pointed out on in an excerpt from his new book on the TED Ideas blog recently, that sort of praise — well intentioned as it might be — actually does more harm than good.

Users are quickly tuning out brands that blast them with generic emails a few times every week and we're seeing that mass emailing does more harm than good.

But in the modern world, where most risks we take aren't life - threatening, that overactive imagination can do more harm than good.

One of the tough things about not properly cleaning your humidifier is that you're potentially doing more harm than good by shooting bacteria out into the air.

However, if your employees are unable to execute them in a natural and sincere manner, these scripts can do more harm than good.

Although there are some companies offering SEO services for less, they are often not specialized and can do more harm to your business than doing any good.

Low interest rates were necessary to juice the economy during the financial crisis, but they are now, by many measures, doing more harm than good.

Situated on the Blagdon Estate owned by Matt Ridley, a peer and Conservative politician who has said climate change has done more good than harm, Shotton has been mined by Banks since 2008.

Donald Trump's administration is talking tough, but putting up new trade barriers will do more harm than good to American consumers and companies

It should be clear by now to Andrew Forrest that his campaign for a political inquiry into the iron ore industry has done the company he runs, Fortescue Metals Group, more harm than good — and might even have stirred up trouble for another local billionaire, Gina Rinehart.

The only problem is that Trump's, and later Spicer's, comments paint the picture of an unfocused plan that could do more harm than good if implemented.

The reality is, if you're taking advice from these people early on, you're barking up the wrong tree, because that formal plan you're going to spend an inordinate amount of time putting together is going to do more harm than good.

Nevertheless, the BIS is now openly wondering if the U.K.'s failure to adjust interest rates upward from 0.5 % can be sustained without causing more harm than good.

Trump's tariff threats appear to be doing more harm than good to the U.S., former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says.

If the objective is to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula and avoid the outbreak of war, high - profile military exercises and additional deployments may do more harm than good.

Throwing other employees into the mix — whether it's to demonstrate their superiority or inferiority — can do more harm than good.

The article's author, Steve Denning, dissects the main theme of Martin's book, which is that the current practices around maximizing shareholder value actually do more harm than good:

But speculating on price fluctuations is a tricky art that can end up doing more harm than good.

While that is often the point of launching a social - media campaign, many times an entrepreneur's strategy can backfire — resulting in more harm than good.

However, this is largely an evolutionary holdover: Now that we are on top of the food chain and rarely need to assume fight or flight reflexes, the reality is that cognitive biases cause significantly more harm than good.

But first, people who build and program all forms of AI need to ensure their wiring prevents robots from causing more harm than good.

It might feel like pressing the snooze button in the morning gives you a little bit of extra rest to start your day, but the truth is that it does more harm than good.

You may be sacrificing sleep in an effort to accomplish more, but it will do more harm in the long run than good.

Unless you're lactose intolerant, steering clear of milk, Greek yogurt and other popular dairy - based breakfast foods to save calories may be doing you more harm than good.

Building links that appear to be unnatural or manipulated can do more harm than good.

But there are times when promoting an award could actually be doing your business more harm than good.

While it is nice to have award logos plastered all over your website and products, it can get quite expensive and, if done in haste, can cause more harm than good.

It's doing more harm than good.

They believe that change is unnecessary and that it causes more harm than good.

Research shows that happiness has positive effects on our brains, and it's certainly a pleasant turn of luck to be born with a sunny disposition, but according to science if you weren't so fortunate and naturally tend towards pessimism, trying to remake yourself into more of an optimist is probably doing more harm than good.

Teaching business plans and financial projections «may be doing more harm than good.

First, let's get this out of the way: I'm certain the Trump tariffs will do more harm than good.

This is because it was never very useful, or efficient, but now causes more harm than good.

Despite all the uproar surrounding our presidential candidates, changing your investment strategy based on your political beliefs is likely to do more harm than good.

A judge's ruling on warning labels for coffee isn't backed by evidence and could do more harm than good.

Acquiring too many links, or too many of the same kind of link, or links on irrelevant or low - quality sources, can all potentially lead to an algorithmic or manual penalty — so it's no wonder why Mueller says that link building can do more harm than good!

But are low rates doing more harm than good?

To prefer 5 % to the current 4 % nominal GDP growth going forward, and a fortiori to ask for a burst of money creation to get us back to the previous 5 % bubble path, is to ask for chronically higher monetary expansion and inflation that will do more harm than good.

Displaying what Donald (now Dierdre) McCloskey once characterized as «the intellectual range from M to N,» there is no real comparison of the Fed's record with that of the system that preceded it; no mention of other monetary systems circa 1913 that had better records than the United States (most pertinently, that of Canada); not nearly enough acknowledgment of the great harm the Fed has caused more than once in its history; no discussion of why a few other central banks — though surprisingly, only a few — have performed better than the Fed; and no inkling that central banking may not be the best of all possible systems in the best of all possible worlds.

Am I the only one who thinks these Google Webmaster Central office - hours hangouts are doing more harm than good?

The rub, of course, is that staking out turf on a divisive issue can often cause more harm than good.