Critics maintain that the terms “ complementary ” and “ alternative medicine ” are deceptive euphemisms meant to give an impression of medical authority.

Critics of this type of argument have tended to point out that this is just a standard criticism of representative democracy — a democratically elected government will not always act in the direction of greatest current public support — and that, therefore, there is no inconsistency in the leaders ' positions given that these countries are parliamentary democracies.

Critics of United States foreign policy such as Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, and anti-globalist pranksters The Yes Men are widely accepted inside the movement.

Critics also question how any two given properties are determined to be properties of the same object if there is no substance in which they both inhere.

Critics in Chile, however, argue that poverty figures are considerably higher than those officially published.

Critics argue that there are some phenomena which are better captured by symbolic models, and that connectionist models are often so complex as to have little explanatory power.

Critics of Dianetics are skeptical of this study, both because of the bias of the source and because the researchers appear to ascribe all physical benefits to Dianetics without considering possible outside factors ; in other words, the report lacks any scientific controls.

Critics, such as psychiatrist Niall McLaren, argue that the DSM lacks validity because it has no relation to an agreed scientific model of mental disorder and therefore the decisions taken about its categories ( or even the question of categories versus dimensions ) were not scientific ones ; and that it lacks reliability partly because different diagnoses share many criteria, and what appear to be different criteria are often just rewordings of the same idea, meaning that the decision to allocate one diagnosis or another to a patient is to some extent a matter of personal prejudice.

Critics of these versions, such as Taoism scholar Eugene Eoyang, claim that translators like Stephen Mitchell produce readings of the Tao Te Ching that deviate from the text and are incompatible with the history of Chinese thought.

Critics of this theory regard it as simplistic, arguing that ( unlike New Zealand and America ) there is little direct evidence of hunting, and that the dates on which the theory rests are too uncertain to be relied on.

Critics may dispute the positive interpretation of results obtained in scientific studies of ESP, as they claim they are difficult to reproduce reliably, and are small in effect.

Critics of experimental parapsychology hold that there are no consistent and agreed-upon standards by which " ESP powers " may be tested.

A former senior product manager at Master Lock, a trigger lock manufacturer, was quoted as saying “ If you put a trigger lock on any loaded gun, you are making the gun more dangerous .” Critics also point out that a trigger lock will increase the time it takes a gun owner to respond to a self-defense emergency.

Critics have objected to GMOs on several grounds, including tampering with nature, ecological concerns, economic concerns raised by the fact these organisms are often subject to intellectual property law, whether food produced from GMOs should be banned or labelled, whether such food is safe, and whether GM crops are useful to address the world's food needs.

Critics have objected to GM crops per se on several grounds, including ecological concerns, and economic concerns raised by the fact these organisms are subject to intellectual property law.

Critics have also claimed that content externalists are committed to epistemological absurdities.

Critics argue that MNT advocates have not provided a substitute for such a process of evolution in this nanoscale arena where conventional sensory-based selection processes are lacking.

Critics of neoclassical economics are divided in those who think that highly mathematical method is inherently wrong and those who think that mathematical method is potentially good even if contemporary methods have problems.

Critics such as Norman Lebrecht were vocal in their diagnosis of the problem as the " jet set conductor " ( whose salaries were presumably bleeding the orchestras dry ); and several high-profile conductors have taken pay cuts in recent years ; but the amounts of revenue involved are too small to account for the crisis.

Critics are unhappy with having all students meet a minimum standard, instead of most students meeting a somewhat higher standard.

* Windshuttle, Keith ( 1996 ) The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past.

Critics of the McCune – Reischauer system claim that casual users of the system omit the breves ( ˘ ) over the o for 어 and the u for 으, because typing o or u without the breves is often easier than adding them.

Critics of academic elitism argue that highly-educated people tend to form an isolated social group whose views tend to be overrepresented amongst journalists, professors, and other members of the intelligentsia who often draw their salary and funding from taxpayers.

Critics of neoliberalism, at times, claim that it is the newly predominant form of imperialism.

Critics, however, question how one can have the concept of a form existing in a special realm of the universe, apart from space and time, since such a concept cannot come from sense-perception.

Critics of safe trade argue that the military and agriculture aspects of biosecurity are dissimilar, unlikely to converge in the form of an attack disguised as an accident, and require such differential prevention and response measures that there is little risk reduced in altering the fundamental structure of trade relationships to accommodate a robust regime of biosecurity.

Critics of salsa romántica, especially in the late 80s and early 90s, called it a commercialized, diluted form of Latin pop, in which formulaic, sentimental love ballads were simply put to Afro-Cuban rhythms — leaving no room for classic salsa's brilliant musical improvisation, or for classic salsa lyrics that tell stories of daily life or provide social and political commentary.

Critics considered the score to be Sullivan's finest, including its overture, which is in sonata form, rather than being written as a sequential pot-pourri of tunes from the opera, as in most of the other Gilbert and Sullivan overtures.

Regarding the obvious gap between the movie's troubled production and its eventual triumph of aesthetic cinematic form on the screen, Jeff Swindoll wrote in his 2008 DVD Review of Munchausen for Monsters and Critics: " For the absolute hell that the production of the film turned out to be, you really don't see any of that tension on the screen.

Critics of neo-colonialism portray the choice to grant or to refuse granting loans ( particularly those financing otherwise unpayable Third World debt ), especially by international banks such as the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), and the World Bank, as a decisive form of control.

Critics like Claude Charles Fauriel, François Raynouard and German Romanticists like Jacob Grimm posited the spontaneous creation of lyric poems by the people as a whole at the time of the historic battles, which were later put together to form the epics.

Critics claim that techno-utopianism's identification of social progress with scientific progress is a form of positivism and scientism.

Critics contend that this lobbying was a form of genocide denial, as Turkey does not recognize the slaughter of up to 1. 5 million Armenians as a genocide, and does not want the American Government to recognize these events as genocide either.

Critics also consider the concept and geographical placement of consumer finance stores as a form of " redlining ".

Critics of laïcité argue that it is a disguised form of anti-clericalism and infringement on individual right to religious expression, and that, instead of promoting freedom of thought and freedom of religion, it prevents the believer from observing his or her religion.

Critics of the Landsgemeinde argue that the democratic fundamental right on anonymous voting by this form of democracy was not ensured.

Critics contend that it costs the country millions of dollars just to process the same basic registration form and confirm that they meet the HAVA requirements.

Critics who have alleged that Marx has been proved internally inconsistent include former and current Marxian and / or Sraffian economists, such as Paul Sweezy, Nobuo Okishio, Ian Steedman, John Roemer, Gary Mongiovi, and David Laibman, who propose that the field be grounded in their correct versions of Marxian economics instead of in Marx's critique of political economy in the original form in which he presented and developed it in Capital.

Critics charge that the TM movement is a bastardized form of Hinduism which denies its religious roots and claims a scientific basis for the purpose of attempting to secure government funding for its programs.

Critics often cite this distinction when commenting on O ' Brien's artistic aims in The Things They Carried and, in general, all of his fiction about Vietnam, claiming that O ' Brien feels that the realities of the Vietnam War are best explored in fictional form rather than the presentation of precise facts.

Critics of Kenosis theology argue that the context of Philippians 2: 5-8 is referring to Jesus taking the form of a servant to conceal his divine glory ( revealed temporarily in the Transfiguration ), or to forsaking his place and position in heaven to dwell among men, as opposed to forsaking his divine attributes or nature ( see syncatabasis ).

Critics pointed out that founding director Brown's " Pre-Architectural Program " had specified that " the form of the building should be so complete in its beauty that additions would spoil that form ," and that Kahn had achieved that goal extraordinarily well.

Critics of intelligent design and its movement contend that intelligent design is a specific form of creationism, neo-creationism, a viewpoint rejected by intelligent design advocates.

Critics of this term have claimed the definition as a form of sectarianism.

Critics hailed No Guts ... No Glory as the band's true return to form, but southern rock no longer enjoyed the widespread appeal it had previously.