Sentences with phrase «largely accepted the evidence»

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Despite evidence to the contrary, the saturated fat / heart disease theory was largely accepted and promoted in the medical and nutritional communities and is widely accepted today.

Rochelle Wilcox, an attorney representing The Times, said the district and union provided no evidence that publishing the information would harm teachers, a point Chalfant accepted in saying that claim was largely speculative.

Note that Professor Snyder does not deny any of the accepted facts about the Nazi killing machine, but points out that our Western view of the Holocaust, largely formed by accounts of the Nuremberg trials and Hannah Arendt's account of the Eichmann trial, tends to ignore an important part of the evidence.

The evidence presented by Wegener and du Toit has been largely confirmed by global plate tectonics, and Holmes's causal account — mantle convection — is now generally accepted as the cause of plate tectonics.