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

These heterodox publications cost him an imprisonment for some time at Vincennes.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various