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When they're not fretting that Wolf has too many pernicious ideas, the critics scoff that she has none.
Keynes believed that this kind of speculation was pernicious.
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].
What accounts for the pernicious effects of cross-talk?
I take this to be not only silly but potentially politically pernicious.