There are professors and parent activists, City Council members and charities, public-relations firms and fringe gadflies.

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Both Icahn (Netflix, Clorox) and Southeastern (Vulcan Materials, Olympus) are experienced corporate gadflies.

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The IPCC, in other words, learned the hard way the value of letting mavericks and gadflies challenge confirmation bias.

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For both he and Hoyle relished their roles as gadflies.

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Bring on the gadflies.

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