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 of the SAP argue in favor of a weak anthropic principle ( WAP ) similar to the one defined by Brandon Carter, which states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias: i. e., only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing any such fine tuning, while a universe less compatible with life will go unbeheld.

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 have explored the connection between the creation of Thomas ' mythological pasts into his works such as " The Orchards ", which Ann Elizabeth Mayer believes reflects the Welsh myths of the Mabinogion.

Critics have charged Bopp with neglecting the study of the native Sanskrit grammars, but in those early days of Sanskrit studies the great libraries of Europe did not hold the requisite materials ; if they had, those materials would have demanded his full attention for years, while such grammars as those of Charles Wilkins and Henry Thomas Colebrooke, from which Bopp derived his grammatical knowledge, had all used native grammars as a basis.

Critics, such as political economist Karl Polanyi, question whether a spontaneously ordered market can exist, completely free of " distortions " of political policy ; claiming that even the ostensibly freest markets require a state to exercise coercive power in some areas-to enforce contracts, to govern the formation of labor unions, to spell out the rights and obligations of corporations, to shape who has standing to bring legal actions, to define what constitutes an unacceptable conflict of interest, etc.

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 such as Emile Zola complained that it never overcame the corruption of the political system, but rather contributed to it.

Critics of the view have questioned the original thought experiments saying that the lessons that Putnam and later writers such as Tyler Burge ( 1979, 1982 ) have urged us to draw can be resisted.

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 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 of such arguments, and of inclusive language in general, commonly use the terminology of " political correctness ".

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, including practitioners in the physical sciences and social activists, have argued that such definition and quantification is impossibly difficult, and that such measurements are often misused, such as with psychometric personality tests used in employment procedures:

Critics of this traditional view have observed that the types can be quite strongly stereotyped by professions ( although neither Myers nor Keirsey engaged in such stereotyping in their type descriptions ), and thus may arise more from the need to categorize people for purposes of guiding their career choice.

Critics of the textbook note the lack of detail about historical events such as the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 44 ), the Gulag forced-labour camps, the Russo – Finnish Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), the First Chechen War ( 1994 – 96 ), and the Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ), as serious factual inaccuracies ; most egregious, the critics propose, is the absence of the Holocaust ( 1933 – 45 ), and the glorification of the rule of Josef Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

Critics of evolution have long challenged proponents to explain how animals initially evolved complex organs such as eyes, hands, or feathered wings.

Critics have argued that if the test subjects are unable to count for some other reason ( perhaps because they are nomadic hunter / gatherers with nothing to count and hence no need to practise doing so ) then one should not expect their language to have words for such numbers.

Many critics associations, such as New York Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association, chose Saving Private Ryan as Film of the Year.

Critics of this kind include anti-Stalinist communists such as Leon Trotsky, who pointed out that Lenin attempted to persuade the CPSU to remove Stalin from his post as its General Secretary.

Critics argued that the ministry imposed too many principles and guidelines for young writers in the workshop, such as, asking them to avoid metaphors in their poetry and advising them to write about events in their everyday life.

Critics William H. Patterson, Jr., and Andrew Thornton believe that this is simply an expression of Heinlein's longstanding philosophical opposition to positivism.

" Critics such as Jay Cocks in Time, Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice, and Archer Winsten in the New York Post all praised Eastwood's directorial skills and the film, including his performance in the scenes with Walter.

Andrew Pyle gives a lucid account of infinite divisibility in the first few pages of his Atomism and its Critics.

** Critics Award: Andrew Dominik

Films supported by the fund included James Marsh's Oscar-winning Man on Wire ; Armando Iannucci's In the Loop ( Sundance 2009 ); Jane Campion's Bright Star ; Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank ; Dominic Murphy's White Lightnin ’ ( Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals 2009 ); Sally Potter's Rage ( Berlin Competition 2009 ); Noel Clarke ’ s Adulthood ( BAFTA Rising Star ); Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley ( Cannes, Palme d ' Or ); Shane Meadows's This is England ( BAFTA, Best British Film ); Kevin Macdonald's Touching the Void ( BAFTA, Best British Film ); Andrea Arnold's Red Road ( Cannes, Jury Prize ); Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton ( Edinburgh International Film Festival, Best New Director ); Alexis Dos Santos's Unmade Beds ( also at Berlin and Sundance 2009 ); and Duane Hopkins's Better Things ( Cannes, Critics ’ Week ).

He received some of his best reviews for his supporting role as retired professional baseball player Denny Davies in The Upside of Anger, for which he received a nomination from the Broadcast Film Critics Association and won the San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor.

* " Critics Say Soda Policy for Schools Lacks Teeth New York Times, August 22, 2005

" The film is a New York Times Critics ' Pick: after seeing it at the Astor Theatre, Bosley Crowther called it a " a warm and beguiling picturization based on Sally Benson's memoirs of her folks.

Critics praised the film and its " new " director, with The New York Times commenting that the film was " sharply directed by Allen Smithee who has an adroit facility for scanning faces and extracting sharp background detail ," and Roger Ebert commenting, " Director Allen Smithee, a name I'm not familiar with, allows his story to unfold naturally.

Critics of Cabot's growth, such as the Little Rock-based newspaper Arkansas Times, accused these residents of " white flight ": simply giving up on an integrated Little Rock school district.

The orchestra was awarded the Gramophone Awards 2005 Editor's Choice ; CD of the Week and Record of the Year 2004 from The Sunday Times ; and Classical Brit Award 2005 Critics ' Choice.

" Critics also noted its generally asexual treatment of homosexuality: Janet Maslin commented in the New York Times that the film is not one " to associate gayness with actual sex ," while TV Guide quipped that it " finally gets discussion about gay people out of the bedroom and into the record store.

This book won numerous awards, including the 1998 National Book Critics Circle award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award and the George K. Polk Award for Foreign Reporting.

In 1990, Carter was named " Jazz Artist of the Year " in both the Down Beat and Jazz Times International Critics ' polls.

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His 1983 book The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House won him the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times book prize in biography.

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" Kavalier & Clay was published to " nearly unanimous praise " and became a New York Times Best Seller, receiving nominations for the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction.

His Brahms and Ives biographies were end-of-year Critics ' Choices in the NY Times.

Theatre awards include: four Best of Fest Awards ( Canadian Fringe Festivals ), Pick of the Fringe for Drama, Top 5 of the Fringe and Critics ' Choice Spotlight Award finalist for Best Fringe Production of 2011 ( CBC / CVV Magazine / Times Colonist / Monday Magazine ).

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The Fate of the Earth received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other awards, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Critics Award.

He was for five years Poet Laureate of his home state, New Hampshire ( 1984 – 89 ), and can list among the many other honours and awards to have come his way: the Lamont Poetry Prize for Exiles and Marriages ( 1955 ), the Edna St Vincent Millay Award ( 1956 ), two Guggenheim Fellowships ( 1963 – 64, 1972 – 73 ), inclusion on the Horn Book Honour List ( 1986 ), the Sarah Josepha Hale Award ( 1983 ), the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize ( 1987 ), the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry ( 1988 ), the NBCC Award ( 1989 ), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry ( 1989 ), and the Frost Medal ( 1990 ).

" The film was also a New York Times " Critics ' Pick.

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" Critics praised the book for its wild, vibrant prose, and it was described as " big, daring manic-depressive " by The New York Times.