It has long become an accepted truth that whales are special, mythic creatures.
1The notion that federal workers consistently earn higher salaries than comparable private-sector workers has become an accepted truth.
That isn't to discount the studies on marijuana (though we do need more evidence; the link with schizophrenia is by no means an accepted truth).
It's become an accepted truth that you could fit the entire population of the world, shoulder-to-shoulder, on the Isle of Wight.
As English football continues to thrash about in a state of profound institutional funk it has become an accepted truth that its problems are entirely of the root-and-branch type, a function, even of some wider moral failing.
Instead of focusing on how our health is hurting, most of the media coverage uses the term "obesity," making the story more about weight than about health – to the point where it's become an accepted truth that "fat" equals "unhealthy".
Later, playwright Richard Bean and Society of London Theatre (SOLT) chief executive Julian Bird set about shattering the accepted truth that West End ticket prices are extortionate: Bean points the finger at legal ticket touts selling tickets at inflated prices.
The peddled mythology that Pedro is the man who lurves women doesn't bear scrutiny, and yet it is repeated so often that, excuse the cliche, it has become the accepted truth," sniffed Vanderlyd.
In her painstakingly researched book, The Big Fat Surprise, the journalist Nina Teicholz traces the history of the proposition that saturated fats cause heart disease, and reveals the remarkable extent to which its progress from controversial theory to accepted truth was driven, not by new evidence, but by the influence of a few powerful personalities, one in particular.
