conventional wisdom

An Obama presidency will mean different things to different U.S. industries. Based on campaign rhetoric and conventional wisdom, alternative energy companies and some health care firms could benefit.

The petroleum industry could be in for a hard time.

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Matt Simmons is as perplexed as anyone that it has fallen to him to take on OPEC, Exxon, the Saudis, and all the other misguided defenders of conventional wisdom in the oil patch.

Why should one investment banker with a penchant for research be required to point out what he regards as the obvious - that from here on out, oil supplies can't meet demand, and if we don't act soon to solve this crisis, World War III could be looming?

Astronomers shed light on how stars can form around a massive black hole, defying conventional wisdom.

Conventional wisdom is true, many doctors say: Women listen to their bodies and go to the doctor when something isn't right.

Men tend to seek medical attention when they're at death's door -- or when their wives prod them into going.

In this week's Empowered Patient, CNN's Elizabeth Cohen shares the top five symptoms men ignore -- sometimes until it's too late.

Conventional wisdom says that since Americans are living longer, we should work longer too - and that 401(k)s are the best tool for funding whatever retirement we can hope to afford.

A new Pew Research Poll shows 53% of Americans believe we will succeed in Iraq.

That’s the highest percentage since the summer or 2006 and 11 points higher than last September. The percentage of people believing the war is going “very well” or “fairly well” has also jumped, from 30% six months ago to 48% now.

With 99% reporting, Obama has 253,441 and Clinton has 154,852. I don’t know how many delegates this put him up by now, but I’m pretty sure he regained any ground Clinton got last Tuesday.

In the world of online services and editorial content, a term known as "stickiness" becomes the rallying cry of Webmasters and marketers alike.

In essence, these people are fearful that if they lose visitors on the site, they'll never get them back.

But for some reason, Google doesn't feel that way. In fact, it's more than happy to send you out in the wild.

According to many of the pundit class, Texas may be the decisive primary in the Democratic nomination insofar as it is a "must win" for Sen.

Hillary Clinton. The current conventional wisdom is that, should she lose the Texas popular vote, the nomination will certainly go to Sen.

Intrade.com presents a novel kind of political punditry, as members buy and sell "political futures" whose price represents the collective conventional wisdom of who is most likely to win.