received wisdom

The received wisdom was that the former chancellor was the sole Tory heavyweight capable of landing blows on the government.

So when economists at the IMF question received wisdom and the fund's established views twice in a week, it is no small matter.

And when I tracked that received wisdom back to its source, I found that everything I had learned was just a poor educated guess .

What was it about you that made you more immune to all this received wisdom about ulcers?

His cocky contempt for authority led him to question received wisdom in ways that well-trained acolytes in the academy never contemplated.

Received wisdom has long held that the big guns of Fidesz and the Socialists would not fire on each other, for fear of retaliation.

Sometimes, these can be striking, and counterintuitive, challenging received wisdom.

IT IS received wisdom that humanity owes a lot of its evolutionary success to its remarkable ability to communicate.

Back in 2005 and 2006 received wisdom denied that the rapid growth of subprime mortgages was a problem.

the inflationary theory has since become cosmological received wisdom and forced astrophysicists to take particle physics seriously.

Taylor carefully reconsiders the received wisdom, yet his book is no polemic.

The finding refutes received wisdom that the hormone is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Contrary to received wisdom, slashing the rich world's trade-distorting subsidies has a relatively small effect on poor countries.

The authors skewer a few pieces of lazily received wisdom.

Exams require rote learning, and children are not encouraged to question received wisdom.

Back on Earth, people do get sacked in recessions, and the received wisdom is that this is because wages don't adjust.

Received wisdom holds that policy choices determined the pace of recovery.

The received wisdom now is that the banks did not have enough capital.

The received wisdom in Washington is that the two parties are so divided on tax that only an election can resolve the impasse.

Counting on China's pell-mell growth has become received wisdom in the markets.

But what of the received wisdom is true?

The received wisdom is that bisexual people are simultaneously, and equally, attracted to both genders, but this is a misapprehension.

This is scientific heresy: the received wisdom is that any level of radiation causes harm and high doses result in cancer and death.