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
Proponents of Weiss’s promotion will argue that she’s simply championing free speech and heterodox thought.
From Salon • Oct. 10, 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
He is slightly heterodox; what Germans call Kathedersozialist, and what even Maine would call downright Socialist.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
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