The phrase 'contrary to the conventional view' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to describe something that disagrees with the opinion or belief that is generally held by most people. For example: Contrary to the conventional view, modern technology has not made our lives simpler, but more complicated.
Some advocates of austerity argue that, contrary to the conventional view, fiscal tightening now would lower long-term interest rates and improve confidence so much that the impact could be positive.
This shift suggests that, contrary to the conventional view that the live coral trade is a threat to coral reef ecosystems, the buying and selling of corals could help create a powerful incentive for protecting reefs in many small island communities, these scientists say.
They found that, contrary to the conventional view of dominance of severe stand-replacing disturbances in the boreal forest, gap, patch and partial disturbances were most commonly reported in the research literature.
Contrary to the conventional view of the waltz as decorous and restrained, Nebrada emphasizes speed, athleticism, and daring.
Thus, contrary to the conventional view, point centromeres can undergo rapid evolutionary changes.
Indeed, the identification of an important IS genomic fossil record in Wolbachia demonstrates that IS elements are not always of recent origin, contrary to the conventional view of TE evolution in prokaryote genomes.
Contrary to the conventional administrative view, they found that over 90% of the faculty thought that agreements had either no effect or a positive effect on their relationship with students.
It is shown here that contrary to the conventional point of view, the leapfrog scheme is distinguished in this group both in terms of the order of truncation errors and the conservation of the total energy.
Contrary to the conventional point of view, we propose to deem the multi-modeling as building a modular architecture, inspired from Artificial Neural Networks operation mode, where each neuron (module), represented by one of the local models, realizes some higher level transfer function.
Contrary to this conventional view, Chinese aim to achieve a goal with as little direct action as possible.
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the Chinese government is not antireligious.
