There were plenty of food companies eager to support the fat-is-bad consensus and profit by selling new low-fat products, just as there are companies — whole industries, in fact — eagerly promoting research and policies that jibe with the prevailing view on the dangers of global warming.
If you ask the Western intelligentsia hive mind whether that's a good or bad development, the consensus would be that the coup is alarming and bad.
On February 2nd, with the opposition seats empty, the ruling coalition put the bill through the upper house.Such behaviour is considered bad form in consensus-minded Japan.
There is room for agreement between both schools of thought, but framing the "eggs first" and "chickens first" approaches as antithetical to one another isn't bringing anyone any closer to a consensus that bad things are indeed bad, and should be avoided.
The consensus: as bad or worse economically.
While the movement has drawn conflicting viewpoints on what makes it so good or so bad, Leomie Anderson has provided consensus within the fashion world.
He writes that, despite her "affinity for" W., Condi was a bad N.S.C. chief, forcing consensus rather than letting contentious issues get to the president.
By the end of 2010 Spanish banks had already made €87 billion in provisions for bad loans.There is no consensus on how much more capital is needed.
In truth he and his conservative National Action Party (PAN), which lacks a congressional majority, have proved bad at forming a consensus with either the PRI or the leftish Party of the Democratic Revolution PRDDemocratic Revolution PRD
Is consensus a bad thing when it comes to art?
Once the fat-is-bad theory became the consensus — and was being formally promoted in federal agencies' recommendations to the public — the officials handing out money were much more interested in finding evidence about the evils of fat than in looking at alternative hypotheses (like the carbs-are-bad theory discussed by Mr. Taubes).
