In the webinar he was even adamant about refusing to even interact with any data or analyses that in any way demonstrated that his simplistic assertions were wrong.
They also question his credentials and say he is prone to overstating his own expertise, pointing to his inability to speak Arabic, the limited time he has spent in the Middle East, his lack of scholarly research, and what they say are overly simplistic assertions about the relationship between Islam and violent extremism.
Simplistic, perhaps, but potent.
A spokesman for Puma, the petrol station chain partly owned by Trafigura, said Public Eye's report had "simplistic and misleading assertions".
The assertion is simplistic, as the Canadian writer Jeet Heer has noted, but it speaks to a shift in the global perception of the country in recent years as more warlike (not to mention more environmentally destructive).
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, attacked the report as "simplistic" and being built on "false assertions" about levels of spending received by schools.
But it's actually a pretty darn sophisticated approach — as demonstrated by the fact that economists who dismiss or attack IS-LM as too simplistic or something almost always end up making assertions that are much more simplistic than IS-LM, if not falling into outright logical fallacies.
As the reviewer agrees, our data indicates that Trp107f residue is "the most important single residue to determine specificity and activity within the context of the insertion and other aspects of the apicomplexan LDH" – hence our assertion that Trp107f is the apicomplexan "specificity residue" (a convenient yet simplistic label).
Polkinghorne is bothered by the simplistic approach of Richard Dawkins in "The God Delusion," which he sees as "full of assertions, not argument," and "incredibly naïve".
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, of course, is a Republican, which speaks to Leppert's assertion that the red-versus-blue characterization of the World Series, and the two cities, would be much too simplistic.
