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
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
Strauss, Büchner, Haeckel, Clifford, and a host of others, take ground as representatives of thousands of heterodox Europeans, and even in the pulpit itself orthodoxy is suspect.
From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles
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