Certainly there seems something suspect about making it a methodological principle that if most people believe something there is a presumption in favor of the truth of that belief.
It is better for definitions to remain agnostic on values, whilst making it a key principle that space should be made to debate values, goals, concepts and choices in educational (and all other) global health contexts.
Some writers do seem to make it a matter of principle to bite the hand that writes the checks.
And for a very good reason: the president has made it a matter of principle that he will not make concessions that reward hostage-taking, and Republican leaders refuse to release the hostages without getting something that will let them claim victory.
Until now, the president has made it a matter of principle that Mr. Ridge could not testify at Congressional hearings because he was a presidential adviser and not a cabinet officer.
But Dr. Raguso pointed out a well-known axiom that "The dose makes the poison," a principle that Dr. Wright and her colleagues followed in lab experiments.
In other words, it helps to know what you want — a principle that has made a lot of lobbyists a lot of money over the years.
