Weber's belief that rational-legal authority did not exist in Imperial China has been heavily criticized, and does not have many supporters in the early 21st century.

This usage has been criticized as a misnomer, since Sapir and Whorf did not in fact formulate a hypothesis for empirical research, and because it is unclear to what extent Sapir actually subscribed to the idea of language influencing thought.

The diagnosis has been criticized as proponents of the iatrogenic or sociocognitive hypothesis believe it as a culture-bound and often iatrogenic condition.

It is central to the Neyman – Pearson approach to statistical hypothesis testing, and, like statistical hypothesis testing generally, is both widely used and much criticized.

Brainwashing proponents Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich have criticized Barker's rejection of the brainwashing hypothesis in her study of the conversion process for members of the Unification Church.

While early versions of the hypothesis were criticized as teleological and contradicted principles of natural selection, later versions focused on the large-scale effects of life on the planet and are studied in the disciplines of geophysiology and Earth system science.

After initially being largely ignored by most scientists, ( from 1969 until 1977 ), thereafter for a period, the initial Gaia hypothesis was criticized by a number of scientists, such as Ford Doolittle, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould.

The hypothesis that ergotism could explain cases of bewitchment has been subject to debate and has been criticized by several scholars.

The original two-step flow hypothesis — that ideas flow from the media to opinion leaders and then to less active sections of the population — has been criticized and negated by myriad consequent studies.

David Hanson has criticized Mori's hypothesis that entities approaching human appearance will necessarily be evaluated negatively.

The arrest, lengthy trial and subsequent acquittal of Japan's veteran attorney and Human Rights activist Yoshihiro Yasuda, then head of Shoko Asahara's legal team, a move which was harshly criticized by Human Rights Watch, is often cited in support of this hypothesis.

The OPV AIDS hypothesis has been examined and criticized by members of the scientific and medical communities as being unsupported or directly contradicted by available data, and inconsistent with HIV epidemiology.

This hypothesis has been criticized by R. D.

However, the evidence about the origins of the system is scanty, and this hypothesis has been criticized as being part of " Sarmatism " ( the Polish tradition of romanticizing their supposed Sarmatian ancestry ).

While some reviewers contend that studies of the origin of Greek civilization were tainted by a foundation of 19th century racism, many have criticized Bernal for the speculative nature of his hypothesis, his unsystematic and linguistically incompetent handling of etymologies as well as his naive handling of ancient myth and historiography.

Still, Gimbutas ' theories had been widely criticized as mistaken on the grounds of dating, archeological context and typologies Some archaeologists consider her goddess hypothesis implausible some regard her work as pseudo-scholarship.

) This hypothesis has been criticized by Teuku Jacob and colleagues who argue that LB1 is similar to the midget humans who populate a Flores village, Rampasasa, – and who point out that size can vary substantially in pygmy populations.

This hypothesis has been criticized on several grounds, and is not generally accepted by Uto-Aztecanists.

The third hypothesis was criticized due to no vascular supplement of anterior abdominal wall by umbilical vein.

His hypothesis has been widely criticized from various sources, given the surface temperature of Venus is higher than the temperature of boiling water.

Flynn ( 2010 ) has criticized the basic assumption that confirmation of Spearman's hypothesis would support the partially genetic explanation for black-white average IQ differences.

Historian Richard Carrier, a proponent of the Jesus myth hypothesis, has heavily criticized Graves ' work, particularly his book The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, as being unreliable and unscholarly.

Other studies have criticized this arrangement, suggesting that the tooth whorl was located in the originally hypothesized position Additionally, other extinct fish, such as onychodontiformes, have tooth whorls at the front of the jaw, suggesting that such whorls are not as big of an impediment to swimming as suggested in Purdy's hypothesis.

He criticized Lorentz by saying, that it would be better to create a more fundamental theory, which explains the absence of any ether drift, than to create one hypothesis after the other.

Joel Lidov has criticized this restoration, arguing that the Doricha story is not helpful in restoring any fragment by Sappho and that its origins lie in the work of Cratinus or another of Herodotus ' comic contemporaries.

The series received largely positive reviews from television critics, although its long-term story arc was criticized near the show's conclusion.

Kingston's version popularized the story in the West and led to an adaptation by Disney, but contained many arbitrary changes that have been widely criticized by other Asian-American scholars, such as Frank Chin.

" The New York Times praised the film's musical numbers, but criticized the story line, describing it as " a little on the thin side ," but also stating that " it is sprightly enough to plug those inevitable gaps between the shimmeringly gay dances.

Berlitz and Moore's account of the story ( The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility ) claimed to include supposedly factual information, such as transcripts of an interview with a scientist involved in the experiment, their work has also been criticized for plagiarising key story elements from the novel Thin Air which was published a year earlier.

While the gameplay was universally praised as an exceptional experience ( especially for multiplayer ), the lack of a story was strongly criticized by many fans.

The movie deviates from the book's accounts of the story — especially in its portrayal of Turks — and some have criticized the movie version, including Billy Hayes himself.

Rivera publicly criticized Arledge's journalistic integrity, claiming that Arledge's friendship with the Kennedy family ( for example, Pierre Salinger, a former Kennedy aide, worked for ABC News at the time ) had caused him to spike the story ; as a result, Rivera was fired.

Stories that use the setting as merely a backdrop for the story have been criticized for their failure to use it fully.

The show has also been criticized for the sometimes breakneck speed in which it changes story lines, in particular with changes in romantic pairings.

A. Emerton notes that it is “ widely agreed ” that the story of Judah and Tamar “ reflects a period after the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan .” He also suggests the possibility that it contains “ aetiological motifs concerned with the eponymous ancestors of the clans of Judah .” Emerton notes that Dillman and Noth considered the account of the deaths of Er and Onan to “ reflect the dying out of two clans of Judah bearing their names, or at least of their failure to maintain a separate existence .” However, this view was “ trenchantly criticized ” by Thomas L. Thompson.

The film dramatization Hilary and Jackie, supported by Hilary Finzi, changes the story line of the memoir on several key factual points, and has been criticized by some for imposing a scandal on Jacqueline's personal life.

" Postwar Korean scholars in both North and South Korea have also strongly criticized the story of Gija's migration to Korea in the eleventh century BCE.

Conversely, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, criticized the film: " Mr. Hitchcock again is tossing a crazy murder story in the air and trying to con us into thinking that it will stand up without support.

Though criticized in the second false continuation of Don Quixote as being too peripheral to the plot be including in the novel, the story is a notable turn of the Quixote theme, with Don Fernando being driven to erotic madness by the reading love literature written by Cardenio.

The game has been praised for elements such as its story, the variety of strategies players can employ, and its multiplayer mode ; however, the repetition of its level design was frequently criticized by reviewers.

In The Anime Encyclopedia, Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy criticized the production delays and the haituses that led to the creation of the four recap episodes, stating that " if the makers had spent less time recounting the story so far, they might have had more than enough space to finish the entire run within the requisite 26 episodes.

Aimée Schafer of THEM Anime Reviews rated it similarly, and criticized Sara and Setsuna's relationship as " completely unnecessary and totally ruined what could otherwise have been a solid and, I dare say, good story.

The Times was strongly criticized by the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, by Accuracy In Media and by the Reagan government for reporting the story of the massacre.

The story was widely criticized for its sick humour and unorthodox structure, but today is seen as one of the more successful productions of its era.

The Pittsburgh Press criticized that " the show may have a universal theme it's hard to find ," while Duane Dudek of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel summed the series as a " pleasant little sitcom " which was not a " struggle for mastery in some ways, a rather old-fashioned love story.

Likewise, DVD Times called it " an enjoyable story ", but also criticized the split of the plot into two halves as " clumsy ".

He specifically criticized the work of anime director Masayuki Kojima, alleging that " leaden pacing robs the story of the suspense it should generate " and that " more skillful filmmakers could present the same material in half as many episodes and make it compelling ".

The story was both applauded and criticized.