Sentences with phrase «ignore common wisdom»

They take big risks, they ignore common wisdom (such as the notion that there's nothing left to discover in North America), and they even make love in hammocks stretched between branches three hundred feet in the air.

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But like «climate change», road safety has been over-run by the «think of the children» brigade and in the process logic, common sense and plain good practice have been tossed aside to placate the loudest speaker making the most outrageous clams, despite significant evidence to the contrary, and anyone who dares to question the received wisdom of these self - appointed «experts» is (metaphorically at least) tarred and feathered and completely ignored — to the detriment of the very people these «experts» think they are helping.