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| x Criticism of Mormonism |
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Mormonism |
Early Criticism of the Latter Day Saint movement (also called Mormonism) began in 1829, when newspaper editors began criticizing the soon-to-be published Book of Mormon which Joseph Smith, Jr., the movement's founder, said he had translated from...
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| x Criticism of Wikipedia |
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Wikipedia |
The major points of criticism of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, are the claims that the principle of being open for editing by everyone makes Wikipedia unauthoritative and unreliable (see Reliability of Wikipedia), that it exhibits systemic bias...
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| x Criticism of Islam |
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Islam |
Criticism of Islam has existed since Islam's formative stages. Early written criticism came from Christians, prior to 1000 AD, many of whom viewed Islam as a radical Christian heresy. Later there appeared criticism from the Muslim world itself, and...
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| x Criticism of Christianity |
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Christianity |
Throughout the history of Christianity, many people have offered criticisms of Christianity, the Church, and Christians themselves. Some criticism specifically addresses Christian beliefs, teachings and interpretation of scripture. The formal...
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| x Criticism of Muhammad |
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Muhammad |
Criticism of Muhammad has existed since the 7th century, when Muhammad was decried by his non-Muslim Arab contemporaries for preaching monotheism, his marriages, and military expeditions. During the Middle Ages he was frequently demonized in...
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| x Criticism of Wal-Mart |
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Wal-Mart |
Wal-Mart has been subject to criticism by various groups and individuals. Labor unions, community groups, grassroots organizations, religious organizations, and environmental groups protest against Wal-Mart, the company's policies and business...
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| x Criticism of Pokémon | Pokémon |
The Pokￃﾩmon franchise has sparked some controversy and criticism.
This original design of the Pokￃﾩmon Jynx (seen to the right) bore a striking, but perhaps coincidental, resemblance to entertainers in blackface. A strong case can be made for...
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| x Criticism of Islamism |
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Islamism |
Criticism of Islamism concerns critique of those beliefs or notions ascribed to Islamism or Islamist movements. Such criticisms focus on the role of Islam in legislation or the relationship between Islamism and freedom of expression, for example....
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| x Criticism of the Roman Catholic Church | Roman Catholic Church |
Criticism of the Catholic Church subsumes critical observations made about the current or historical Catholic Church, in its actions, teachings, omissions, structure, or nature; theological disagreements would be covered on a denominational basis....
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| x Criticism of patents | Patent |
The criticism of patents, sometimes associated with the term "anti-patent", is the complete or partial opposition to prevalent patent laws, and constitutes a particular form of criticism of intellectual property. A patent is a branch of intellectual...
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| x Criticism of Internet Explorer |
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Internet Explorer |
Internet Explorer is a web browser that is subject to many criticisms. Most of the criticism concerns its security architecture and its degree of support of open standard.
Internet Explorer comes under heavy scrutiny from the computer security...
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| x Criticism of Hinduism | Hinduism |
This article deals with social and cultural criticism of Hinduism. For bias and/or prejudice against Hindus, see anti-Hindu.
Some aspects of Hinduism have been criticised, from both within the Hindu community and externally. Early Hindu reformers,...
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| x Criticism of libertarianism | Libertarianism |
Adherents of different ideologies have criticized libertarianism for various reasons. There are broadly two types of libertarians: consequentialists and rights theorists. Rights theorists oppose "initiation of force and fraud," taken against a...
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| x Criticism of Facebook |
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Facebook's growth as a social networking site has met criticism , especially the privacy of users, child safety, the use of advertising scripts, data mining, and the inability to terminate accounts without first manually deleting all the content....
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| x Criticism of Linux | GNU/Linux |
The Criticism of Linux focuses on issues concerning use of the Linux operating system as a desktop workstation.
Linux has been criticized in the past for being inadequate for desktop use, notably because of the perceived lack of viable versions of...
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| x Criticism of the Bible |
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Bible |
This article is about criticisms which are made against the Bible as a source of information or ethical guidance. Criticism of the Bible is not the same thing as Biblical criticism which is the academic treatment of the Bible as a historical...
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| x Criticism of the Qur'an |
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Qur'an |
As it is the scriptural foundation of most forms of Islam, a religion followed by a significant proportion of the world's population, criticism of the Qur'an has historically been a frequent occurrence.
Muslims believe that the Qur'an is the literal...
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| x Criticism of APL |
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APL has been used since the mid 1960s on mainframe computers and has itself evolved in step with computers and the computing market. APL is not widely used, but minimalistic and high-level by design, at several points in its history it could have...
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| x Criticisms of Salvador Allende |
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Salvador Allende, President of Chile, has inspired a variety of perceptions regarding his policies, personality and performance as a head of state. Around the world, journalists, polling organizations and others have documented the expression of an...
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| x Criticism of Amnesty International |
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Criticism of Amnesty International (AI) includes claims of selection bias, ideological/foreign policy bias against either non-Western countries, or Western-supported countries, AI's policies relating to abortion, and organisational continuity....
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| x Criticisms of anarchism |
Criticisms of anarchism originate from the interest groups it opposes as well as related theories such as Marxism. Specific ideas within anarchism have been criticized, as has anarchism generally. Some charges leveled against anarchism by its...
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| x Criticisms of anarcho-capitalism |
Criticisms of anarcho-capitalism fall into different categories: practical criticisms which claim that anarcho-capitalism is unworkable in practice and critiques which claim that a society can be anarchist or capitalist, but not both. There are...
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| x Criticisms of Anti-Scientific Viewpoints |
Criticisms of anti-scientific viewpoints are many and varied.
Most seem to focus on the confusion of conceptual metaphors arising in the process of learning science and negotiating acceptance of scientific 'truth' in the larger culture. In Western...
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| x Criticisms of capitalism |
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Capitalism has been critiqued from many perspectives during its history. Criticisms range from people who disagree with the principles of capitalism in its entirety, to those who disagree with particular outcomes of capitalism. Among those wishing...
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| x Christopher Hitchens' critiques of specific individuals |
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The British-American author, journalist and literary critic Christopher Hitchens (1949 –) is noted for his scathing critiques of public figures. Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, and Mother Teresa were the targets of Hitchens' book-length studies, No...
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| x CNN controversies and allegations of bias | CNN |
CNN has been the subject of several controversies. These refer to both the domestic version of CNN and CNN International. CNN has been accused of both a liberal and conservative bias.
Some conservative observers, such as Accuracy in Media and Media...
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| x Criticism of Coca-Cola |
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Coca-Cola |
The Coca-Cola Company and its products have been criticized by various sources for various reasons including negative health effects resulting from consumption of its products, exploitative labor practices, high levels of pesticides in its products,...
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| x Criticism of college and university rankings | College and university rankings |
Criticism of college and university rankings (2007 United States) refers to a 2007 movement which developed among faculty and administrators in American Institutions of Higher Education. It follows previous movements in the U.S. and Canada (by...
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| x Criticism of college and university rankings |
Criticism of college and university rankings refers to movements which developed among faculty and administrators in American Institutions of Higher Education as well as in Canada.
In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in U.S. News and World...
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| x Criticisms of communism |
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Communism |
Criticisms of communism can be divided in two broad categories: Those concerning themselves with the practical aspects of 20th century Communist states and those concerning themselves with communist principles and theory. Although they often overlap...
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| x Criticisms of Communist party rule |
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Criticisms of Communist party rule have played a major role in political discourse throughout the world since the Russian October Revolution of 1917.
Differentiated from both liberal democracy and traditional forms of autocratic rule such as tsarism...
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| x Criticism of multiculturalism | Multiculturalism |
Criticism of multiculturalism often debates whether the multicultural ideal of benignly co-existing cultures that interrelate and influence one another, and yet remain distinct, is sustainable, paradoxical or even desirable. Nation states that, in...
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| x Criticism of the Food and Drug Administration | Food and Drug Administration |
Numerous governmental and non-governmental organizations have criticized the U. S. Food and Drug Administration of either over- or under- regulation. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health...
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| x Inaccuracies in The Da Vinci Code |
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The Da Vinci Code |
The Da Vinci Code, a popular suspense novel by Dan Brown, generated a great deal of criticism and controversy after its publication in 2003. Many of the complaints centered on the book's speculations and alleged misrepresentations of core aspects of...
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| x Criticism of debt |
This article is about criticism of, and arguments against debt.
There are many arguments against debt as an instrument and institution, on a personal, family, social, corporate and governmental level. Usually these refer to conditions under which...
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| x Criticism of EDO Corporation |
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EDO Corporation |
EDO Corporation is an American company that designs and manufactures products for defense, intelligence, and commercial markets, and provides related engineering and professional services. It has been the object of criticism in the United States and...
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| x Criticisms of electoralism | Voting system |
Although highly controversial at various points in history, representative democracy (and electoral systems in general) has become the modern civics global-standard. Nevertheless, criticisms of electoral politics continue to come from both within...
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| x Criticism of Family Guy |
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Family Guy |
The animated series Family Guy has been the target of numerous complaints concerning taste and indecency, as well as criticism from animators concerning quality and originality. While most attention has been given to the moral criticisms (i.e. crude...
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| x Google Watch |
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Google Watch is a website launched in 2002 by Daniel Brandt. Brandt states that the website's goals are to report on invasion of privacy issues. Brandt has stated that he intends the site to act as a "point of reference for privacy advocates,...
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| x Criticism of Greenpeace |
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Greenpeace |
Throughout its history, the non-governmental environmental protection and conservation organization Greenpeace has been criticized by a number of groups, including state governments such as Germany's, members of industry such as BP, and political...
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| x Criticism of Human Rights Watch | Human Rights Watch |
Critics including Human Rights Watch (HRW) founder Robert L. Bernstein have criticized HRW for failing to differentiate between "open and closed csocieties." According to Bernstein, in its early decades, HRW focused its work on undemocratic, closed...
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| x Criticism of intellectual property |
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Intellectual property |
Critics of the term "intellectual property" argue that the increased use of this terminology coincided with a more general shift away from thinking about things like copyright and patent law as specific legal instruments designed to promote the...
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| x Criticism of IPCC AR4 |
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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report |
The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) has been subjected to both scientific and non scientific (process based) criticism. Scientific criticism can broadly be broken down into criticism that the report either greatly understates or greatly...
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| x Criticism of the Iraq War |
The U.S. rationale for the Iraq War has faced heavy criticism from an array of popular and official sources both inside and outside the United States. Putting this controversy aside, both proponents and opponents of the invasion have also criticised...
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| x Opposition to the Iraq War |
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There was significant opposition to the Iraq War across the world, both before and during the initial 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States,the United Kingdom and smaller contingents from other nations, and throughout the subsequent occupation....
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| x Criticism of Java | Java |
A number of criticisms have been levelled at Java programming language for various design choices in the language and platform, such as the introduction of generics, the types available for numeric variables, and the look-and-feel of its default...
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| x Criticism of Pope John Paul II | Pope John Paul II |
Pope John Paul II was criticised, amongst other things, for his views against the ordination of women and contraception, his support for the Second Vatican Council and its reform of the Liturgy, and his stance for the sanctity of marriage.
John Paul...
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| x Criticism of government response to Hurricane Katrina |
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The criticism of the government response to Hurricane Katrina consisted primarily of condemnations of mismanagement and lack of preparation in the relief effort in response to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Specifically, there was a delayed...
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| x Criticisms of Marxism | Marxism |
Various aspects of Marxist theory have been criticized. These criticisms concern both the theory itself, and its later interpretations and implementations.
Criticisms of Marxism have come from the political left as well as the political right....
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| x Criticism of the National Health Service | National Health Service |
The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded health care system of the United Kingdom, created under the National Health Service Act 1946 by the post-war Labour government of Clement Attlee. It has come under much criticism, especially...
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| x Legitimacy of NATO bombing of Yugoslavia |
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The NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War is a topic whose legality and legitimacy has been challenged. Critics, such as Noam Chomsky, have condemned NATO's military campaign in Yugoslavia in general, and its...
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| x Opposition to water fluoridation |
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Water fluoridation |
Opposition to water fluoridation refers to activism against the fluoridation of public water supplies. The controversy occurs mainly in English-speaking countries, as Continental Europe does not practice water fluoridation, although some continental...
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| x Pledge of Allegiance criticism |
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Pledge of Allegiance |
The criticism of the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States exists on several grounds. Its use in public schools has been the most controversial, as critics contend that a government-sanctioned endorsement of religion violates the Establishment...
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| x Criticism of the clothes free movement | Naturism |
Like most social movements, the clothes free movement which promotes the acceptance of social nudity has garnered a fair amount of criticism.
Some national organizations affiliate with clubs that choose to discriminate based on inclusion of gays,...
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| x Criticisms of socialism | Socialism |
Criticisms of socialism range from disagreements over the efficiency of socialist economic and political models, to condemnation of socialist states. Many economic liberals dispute that the egalitarian distribution of wealth and the nationalization...
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| x Criticism of the Space Shuttle program |
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Space Shuttle program |
Criticism of the Space Shuttle program stems from claims that the Shuttle program has failed to achieve its promised cost and utility goals, as well as design, cost, management, and safety issues. More specifically, it has failed in the goal of...
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| x Criticism of sport utility vehicles |
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Sport utility vehicle |
Criticism of sport utility vehicles is an expression (made by various groups, organizations or individuals) of disapproval of sport utility vehicles (SUVs). Criticism may focus on risks posed to other road users or to the environment by the larger...
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| x Critique of technology | Technology |
Critique of technology is a theory which analyzes the negative impacts of technologies. Proponents of these theory argue that, in all advanced industrial societies (whether capitalist or not), technology becomes a means of domination, control and...
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| x Criticism of Torchwood | Torchwood |
British science fiction, crime drama and Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood received much media attention and criticism in anticipation to and following its initial launch, both positive and negative. As a spin-off of long-running British cultural...
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| x Criticism of the War on Terrorism |
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War on Terrorism |
Criticism of the War on Terrorism (also named the War on Terror) addresses the issues, morals, ethics, efficiency, economics, and other questions surrounding the War on Terrorism. Arguments are also made against the phrase itself, calling it a...
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