Schwarzenegger, in contrast, shrinks from unpopular truths.

"Isn't there a German proverb about people preferring a popular myth to an unpopular truth?"

Abbey felt that it was the duty of all authors to "speak the truth--especially unpopular truth.

Harping on an unpopular truth is rarely a career-advancing or an audience-building move.

A great man, a brave man, a man with insight into unpopular truths.

To Chagnon and his defenders, Tierney and Turner and their kind are conducting a smear campaign against a man who dares to speak an unpopular scientific truth - that natural selection rewards aggression.

But as a former fat person, I would welcome the long-overdue acknowledgment of another unpopular truth - not every fat person fits the stereotype of coming from a "miserable" family "that created a hole" in her soul "that she tried to fill with food."

"Leadership is about insuring that the public hears the true facts, no matter how many times you say it, or no matter how unpopular the truth may be."

Eli Evans, president of the Revson Foundation, said Mr. Halpern was joining the ranks of progressive family foundations that have been "pioneers committed to social justice - when they found unpopular truths, they kept the nation informed and forewarned."

Reynolds' paper presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in Mexico City, (Dec. 28th, 1959) revealed the unpopular truths to be found about the physical dangers of exposure to nuclear radiation.