do more harm than good
idiom
: be more harmful than helpful
He thinks the treatment may do more harm than good.
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So, yeah, there is a lot of tools that, unfortunately, do more harm than good.
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Abc News, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2024
Jain, from the Center for Democracy and Technology, acknowledged those concerns but said new laws banning criminalizing or restricting VPNs could do more harm than good and may face constitutional legal challenges.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2024
Israel is a sovereign country with the right to reject an offer that would do more harm than good—especially an offer from a bloodthirsty terrorist organization such as Hamas.
—Ehud Barak, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2024
As the children grew older, there was reason for the mother to be concerned that a large payout at age 25 could do more harm than good as one of her sons was struggling with health problems.
—R.j. Shook, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
With certain scalp conditions, getting tape-in extensions can do more harm than good.
—Tayler Adigun, Allure, 25 Mar. 2024
But medical experts are concerned that full-body MRI scans could do more harm than good for the majority of patients — setting up people who have no specific risk of cancer or another illness for overtreatment and overdiagnosis.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
But based on the current evidence, Keating believes additional screenings — which have not so far been associated with significantly lower mortality in women who aren’t high-risk — may do more harm than good.
—Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 23 Jan. 2024
In other words, using familiar human experiences to explain errors and glitches stemming from an AI model’s analyses of billions of parameters of data could do more harm than good.
—Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
Abc News, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2024
Jain, from the Center for Democracy and Technology, acknowledged those concerns but said new laws banning criminalizing or restricting VPNs could do more harm than good and may face constitutional legal challenges.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2024
Israel is a sovereign country with the right to reject an offer that would do more harm than good—especially an offer from a bloodthirsty terrorist organization such as Hamas.
—Ehud Barak, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2024
As the children grew older, there was reason for the mother to be concerned that a large payout at age 25 could do more harm than good as one of her sons was struggling with health problems.
—R.j. Shook, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
With certain scalp conditions, getting tape-in extensions can do more harm than good.
—Tayler Adigun, Allure, 25 Mar. 2024
But medical experts are concerned that full-body MRI scans could do more harm than good for the majority of patients — setting up people who have no specific risk of cancer or another illness for overtreatment and overdiagnosis.
—Alex Knapp, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
But based on the current evidence, Keating believes additional screenings — which have not so far been associated with significantly lower mortality in women who aren’t high-risk — may do more harm than good.
—Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 23 Jan. 2024
In other words, using familiar human experiences to explain errors and glitches stemming from an AI model’s analyses of billions of parameters of data could do more harm than good.
—Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2024
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