However, they have also sometimes been described as "at best irrelevant and at worst positively harmful."

There are still plenty of myths and old wives tales surrounding feeding and some of these may be positively harmful to the horse.

Societies which are inimical or positively harmful must be dissolved, and finally the government must be destroyed.

Judge Greene said the entry of these companies into these markets would be "positively harmful" to the country.

The conservatives argue that existing Federal programs are not just ineffective but positively harmful, hurting the very people they are intended to help.

Their influence may be positively harmful if they persuade the physician to undertake procedures which his judgment convinces him are inadvisable.

It is in fact positively harmful.

Government assistance is not only unnecessary, but positively harmful.

(In practice, of course, a good deal of health care is either inappropriate, useless or positively harmful.)

How we often take something harmless, then add and build on the perceived 'truth' to the point of creating something that is positively harmful.