There's quite a club: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22Renegade+Researcher%22&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22Renegade+Researcher%22&i... Varmus

There's quite a club: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22Renegade+Researcher%22&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22Renegade+Researcher%22&i... Varmus Reprimanded Over 'Renegade Researcher' - "a former NIH geneticist accused of conducting forbidden embryo-related research on the NIH campus in 1994 and 1995." - https://www.science.org/content/article/varmus-reprimanded-over-renegade-researcher https://www.science.org/content/article/varmus-reprimanded-o... Biotechnology: The Renegade Researcher - who injected "genetically altered bacteria into 14 trees in the hope of protecting them from Dutch elm disease" without EPA permission - https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,965261,00.html https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,965... Renegade Researcher Says Alzheimer's Drugs From Bristol-Myers, Pfizer May Be Unsafe Or Ineffective - https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlangreth/2010/08/23/renegade-researcher-says-alzheimers-drugs-from-bristol-myers-pfizer-may-be-unsafe-or-ineffective/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlangreth/2010/08/23/reneg... "Elliott Kotze is a community and counselling psychologist and renegade researcher in Cape Town, South Africa." - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09593535211061632?journalCode=fapa https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095935352110616... It also finds people I would describe as being in the alt-medicine and pseudoscience fields.