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I might accuse them of being pernicious tools of Satan (well, OK, Disney), but I wouldn't be so disrespectful as to dismiss them lightly or discredit (all of) their motives.
The anti-HMO strategy is also evidence of the pernicious influence of Anecdotal Politics.
It didn't reference Al Gore's "livability agenda" for the 2000 election or quote any politicians decrying the pernicious social effect of traffic.
He has argued that the cyberindustry's hidden "tyranny of code" can be more pernicious than the clumsy, overreaching state.
To be effective, all HIV interventions should include an analysis of how stigma functions, how it enhances dominance and subordination in society, how it is that some win and others lose in the pernicious struggle for pre-eminence, and why it is that such a social scheme perversely flourishes in the first place [16].