heterodox

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So have heterodox types like James Talarico, the Bible-quoting left-wing populist who won the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 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

Even some heterodox economists themselves have not wanted to be associated with it, and I don't actually love the term.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 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

Dr. Hooker has become almost as heterodox as you or I, and I look at Hooker as by far the most capable judge in Europe.

From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Darwin, Charles