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I can think of examples of physics that is harmful, and physics which is helpful.
Can think of examples of social science which is helpful, but none which is harmful (e.g. yesterday read a paper using survival analysis to predict boko haram's terrorist behaviour which is useful in averting terrorist casualties, and in enhancing understanding).
On the other hand, there's MRI machines (helpful), but also torture devices (harmful)
You don't need much physics knowledge to torture someone. You could say that electric shock based torture needs some phyiscs knowledge about electricity but I'm not sure that it's worse torture than various treatments done in the middle ages.