Others love to argue and challenge incessantly the established wisdom of television, the press and the older generation.

Thank you for running Gary Taubes's article (July 7) and having the guts to go against the established wisdom.

Most successes (in books, music, movies, politics, non-profits, etc.) don't come from where the established wisdom tells us they're going to come from.

Moreover there was an established wisdom about it all.

"And Shakespeare's warning about contemporary wisdom, that the common established wisdom of your era is not necessarily absolute truth."

To determine who is most likely, in any era, to challenge the established wisdom, he studied as many as 256 characteristics, like age, religion, class, education and travel experience.

Elliot Oring notes that elephant jokes dismiss conventional questions and answers, repudiate established wisdom, and reject the authority of traditional knowledge.

This indicates that the forest is acting like a sink, contrary to established wisdom.

This is kind of contrary to that other bit of established wisdom that scientists run around suppressing research that doesn't fit.

In 1967 he broke the established wisdom that tuberous sclerosis was defined by Vogt's triad of mental retardation, epilepsy and adenoma sebaceum (a papular facial rash).