heterodox
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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
Maybe there is hope after all for the rising generation of boys and men if even a heterodox public intellectual like Scott Galloway is willing to offer such traditional medicine for our contemporary male maladies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
It's ironic that the people behind the "cancel culture" discourse call themselves heterodox.
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2024
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
Priestley tells us that he "saw reason to embrace what is generally called the heterodox side of almost every question."
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
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