I assume you mean "hearsay" ("information that was heard by one person about another"), rather than "heresy" ("A doctrine held by a member of a religion at var

I assume you mean "hearsay" ("information that was heard by one person about another"), rather than "heresy" ("A doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs")? Use of the latter term by accident might be a little unfortunate given the nature of the topic :) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hearsay https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hearsay https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heresy https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heresy