Your critics argue that your ideas are simplistic or overreliant on anecdotal evidence.
Derambarsh, the son of Iranian exiles who was born in Paris in 1979 and spent four years in Iran as a young child, shrugs off criticism that his ideas are simplistic.
That idea is too simplistic.
However desirable, this idea is dangerously simplistic and in fact quite new.
But this idea is "too simplistic," counters Sankar Chatterjee, a paleontologist at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, because many ornithuromorphs vanished during the extinction, too.
Twitter and Facebook both have deserved reputations as echo chambers but the idea of social media as just one big bubble, somewhere people go to avoid ever meeting an idea they won't like, is simplistic and outdated.
Others worry that the treatment of the idea will be simplistic -- "the 9/11 story has a complicated relationship to the idea of freedom," one local museum administrator said -- or that a term as loosely defined as "freedom" could be put to ideological ends.
John Zuill, Bermuda: Allow a reader to quibble: The idea that personality cannot alter history is simplistic I agree, but Arafat was very much a product of his time.
The idea that "gay people don't have children" is simplistic and, historically, wrong.
