heterodox

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He encountered its flagship quarterly, City Journal, in high school, and it was “rigorous, urbane, and unafraid of heterodox conclusions,” unlike anything else he was reading.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

At the dawn of research into what is now known as HIV/AIDS, Duesberg took the heterodox view that HIV was a harmless virus that had nothing to do with AIDS.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

There's been a lot of talk recently about creating a more heterodox Democratic Party.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2025

As Catholic Herald’s Ed Condon explains, the Church opposes Freemasonry because of its secular focus and its role as a sanctuary for “those with heterodox ideas and agendas.”

From National Geographic • Sep. 19, 2023

However heterodox their innermost sentiments, they usually maintain as decent an appearance of conformity with custom as the most worldly and orthodox could desire.

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob