harmful

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Many regulations are essential guardrails of safety: minimizing the risk of financial crises, ensuring that our food isn’t harmful, protecting us from airplanes that malfunction, and so forth.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

In this view, harmful mutations are usually removed by natural selection, while truly beneficial mutations are so rare that most lasting molecular changes are expected to be neutral.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

In her recommendations, Killean called for greater focus on platform design and accountability, and a crack-down on harmful features.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

When proteostasis fails, damaged proteins can accumulate into harmful clumps that interfere with normal brain function.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

After some wrangling, J. T. promised Venkatesh unfettered access to the gang’s operations as long as J. T. retained veto power over any information that, if published, might prove harmful.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt