Sure, it oversimplifies a complex calculation about threats to humanity.
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But as with the immigration debates, it oversimplifies the matter.
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But this still oversimplifies the relationship between drugs and mass incarceration.
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It oversimplifies Istvan's motivation for issuing an accusation against a friend.
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This scenario oversimplifies the fundraising process and certainly every situation is different.
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At its worst, it oversimplifies important topics and pushes us towards extremes.
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Nonetheless, the narco state label vastly oversimplifies the problems facing Guinea-Bissau.
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But others argue that the Doomsday Clock oversimplifies a complex web of risk.
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But, the assumption of this polarization sometimes oversimplifies the actual dynamic at work.
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The back and forth on the campaign trail somewhat oversimplifies Mr. Obama's position. Mrs.
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They explain that our methods of calculating which planet is "the closest" oversimplifies the matter.
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The well-worn narrative of helpless, starving South Sudanese "wildly oversimplifies" the reality, he said.
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To say mark-to-market was the only culprit of the recession oversimplifies the crisis.
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Yes, that oversimplifies the vast network of users connected by its software and bound by iOS.
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They argued that criticizing safe spaces and trigger warnings oversimplifies real issues faced by many students.
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This ignores intersectional identities of LGBTQ Asians and black women, and oversimplifies the issues people face.
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More egregiously, he oversimplifies the complex forces operating in today's technologically advanced and hyper-competitive economy.
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The current conversation oversimplifies complex issues, emphasizes blame over responsibility, and encourages deadlock instead of progress.
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The story "oversimplifies and distorts what the New York law allows," according to the fact-checking organization.
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It oversimplifies complicated issues, like insomnia, anxiety, PTSD, and autism, gives people false hopes, and wastes people's money.
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Valorie Crooks, an expert on medical tourism at Simon Fraser University, said that this oversimplifies a complex issue.
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González-Rojas said that just asking whether someone is pro- or anti-abortion oversimplifies how Latinxs view this issue.
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He oversimplifies when he reduces Bill Clinton to "co-politician" and Chelsea to a worker at the Clinton Foundation.
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And by distilling individual performance down to eight main traits—each with its own chapter—the book oversimplifies its subject.
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But to argue that Ms. Winfrey should run for president — or shouldn't — simply because she's a celebrity oversimplifies the issue.
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Painting with such an overly broad brush -- a la Mulvaney and Conway -- drastically oversimplifies why voters do what they do.
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"Drawing broad connections between accidents involving different types of emergencies oversimplifies what is, by definition, a complex science," it said.
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Grouping all races into the same group oversimplifies conversations about race, and ignores the different ways communities of color face discrimination.
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That oversimplifies things, admittedly, but the fact remains: A poorly engineered movie falls apart as quickly as a poorly engineered car.
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When someone oversimplifies their science for me or appears to be testing me, I have special phrases to quickly convey intelligence.
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To say that Parker seeks to reclaim these characters oversimplifies the book's tense negotiations of pop culture, systemic racism and black womanhood.
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And most critics feel that Rotten Tomatoes, in particular, oversimplifies criticism, to the detriment of critics, the audience, and the movies themselves.
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No one work in Offal oversimplifies food culture's complexities, but as with many large group shows, the content can get a bit diffuse.
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Dualism oversimplifies both mind and body and leads to a devaluation of the complexly embodied, psychosomatic ways in which beings inhabit the world.
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But now some researchers are pushing back against that idea, arguing that it oversimplifies the obstacles that poor and middle-class families face.
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Though that oversimplifies the situation greatly, there's an element of truth to it and we may see it referenced as others mount similar attempts.
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Art, they have shown, has the power to penetrate the meme-ification of current political discourse which oversimplifies the debate until it becomes counterproductive.
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Zuckerberg and Chan's grandiose pledge to stamp out all diseases, no matter how well-intentioned and aspirational it is, oversimplifies what this would mean.
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The advisers said the proposal could put epidemiological studies off the table for EPA and oversimplifies objections based on personal privacy of study subjects.
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Some fear he oversimplifies the problem of graft and the task of eradicating it — as well as the price tag for his grand ambitions.
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"It oversimplifies matters to say that liberal judges should want to undo the merger whereas conservative ones should want to permit it," Pitt said.
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Reducing complex wars to one-word phrases — Vietnam as war of "attrition" or supposed successes in Iraq as a result of a "surge" — dangerously oversimplifies.
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More troubling still, this model oversimplifies the truth about sexual abuse, obscuring the experiences of marginalized women and fundamentally altering the way we address the problem.
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But Nicola Twilley's article oversimplifies the relevant science: there is no consensus on how extensively we should thin forests or use controlled burns to prevent megafires.
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Of course, you could argue that wind chill is easier to use specifically because it oversimplifies, covering up a huge amount of variation with a single number.
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I'd argue that this oversimplifies an incredibly complex subject, but hey, I'm not a Fox News producer... So: On Monday "Fox & Friends First" said the caravan was "exploding," getting bigger.
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In short, the chart isn't totally wrong, but it oversimplifies a rather complicated story: While deinstitutionalization did contribute to mass incarceration, it wasn't the whole cause or even a big one.
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But others have long contended that chalking up tech's diversity woes to a leaky pipeline oversimplifies the problem, which is that the industry has unresolved issues with sexism that keep women away.
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The activists claim that the museum has turned its back on its community to pursue a new market-driven agenda that fetishizes and oversimplifies Latin American art for branding and fundraising purposes.
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All this suggests that graphing data, simplifying it and making it easy to understand and fun to play with has some serious problems: It oversimplifies, obscures and makes real insights harder to come by.
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Unfortunately, that stat doesn't apply to everyone (it's specific to college-educated women in their 20s) and leaves out a big chunk of the female workforce (not to mention it oversimplifies a complicated problem).
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Why it matters: The advent of 5G has been sold to the public as a global race, but that framing oversimplifies the issue and opens the door to nationalist pandering and special-interest promotions.
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According to court documents, even if Fisher had received a perfect personal achievement score that included race (which, in itself, oversimplifies the admissions process), she still would not have necessarily qualified under UT's admission rubric.
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Eric Schneider of the Commonwealth Fund, a health care advocacy foundation, told BuzzFeed News the NBER study oversimplifies the despair theory, which sees a slide toward poverty as a precondition for overdose deaths, not the direct cause.
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"Although interesting, I think that the study oversimplifies the possible adaptation that has occurred by simply evaluating the external shape," said Dr. Stella Lee, an assistant professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who was not involved in the research.
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Joe BishDirector of Issue Advocacy, Population Media Center (PMC)Just arriving at an educated guess at ideal human population oversimplifies the puzzle: because while population size sets the scale of human impact, it is not the sole determinant of the human relationship with Earth.
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But people close to the president and Hannity say this caricature vastly oversimplifies the complicated and evolving alliance between the two men and misunderstands the degree to which Trump, as candidate and president, has come to Hannity's positions, rather than the other way around.
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Granted, the governance framework will need to be retooled to satisfy calls for greater transparency and better procedures, but suggesting that this can only be done by an external body oversimplifies the task at hand, and perhaps worse, disregards demands from the very people that are trying to get back on their feet.
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But I also think that his ability to simplify things, and I know that his opponents would say he oversimplifies things, but his ability to simplify things down to the basic argument that we&aposve been having in Washington over the Supreme Court for the past 40 plus, 50 years about whether the constitution means what it says or whether it means something that isn&apost in the constitution.
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Poems are as good a place for the past as the grass is for the wasp, whose iridescent face shines as she snaps the antennae off the cockroach and laps up the blood drink like the wasp goddess taught her in the vision whose street name, instinct, oversimplifies how satisfying I'm finding it to say cock as often as I have had the occasion to here; American cock, in particular.
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Some modern historians however dispute the claim and instead suggest that this oversimplifies a wider ranging series of discussions.Ashworth, Lucian M., 2002. “Did the Realist-Idealist Debate Really Happen? A Revisionist History of International Relations,” International Relations, 16(1): 33–51.
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Patterson charged that Bush's agency had repaired only two homes in the months following Hurricane Harvey and criticized his plan to renovate the Alamo historic site.Selby, W. Gardner. "Charge that George P. Bush-led agency has repaired two homes since Hurricane Harvey oversimplifies." Politifact. Dec.
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Zhilin explains the movie oversimplifies the picture and the life is much more complicated and a lot less glamorous than how it is portrayed. He alludes to the events in The Land of Crimson Clouds. The next stop of the tour is Diona space observatory; the researchers there produce valuable scientific contributions. However, personal relationships deteriorate.
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Education literature tends to treat race, social class, and gender as separate issues. A review of a sample of education literature from four academic journals, spanning ten years, sought to determine how much these status groups were integrated. The study found little integration. The study then provided a research example on cooperative learning to illustrate how attention to only one status group oversimplifies the analysis of student behavior in school.
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Tucano bark cloth dance regalia, collection of the American Museum of Natural History The Tucano people (sometimes spelt Tukano) are a group of Indigenous South Americans in the northwestern Amazon, along the Vaupés River and the surrounding area. They are mostly in Colombia, but some are in Brazil. They are usually described as being made up of many separate tribes, but that oversimplifies the social and linguistic structure of the region.
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These are sometimes known as the East Cape War, but that label oversimplifies a complicated series of conflicts. The last major conflicts were Te Kooti's War and Titokowaru's War. These were fought at the same time but were not related to each other and should be considered as separate conflicts. This ended the major, violent conflicts between the new colonial government and the original occupants of the land.
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Goldie decides to take an alternative path, striving to become the city's biggest pimp. Though reviews were less than favorable upon initial release, The Mack is considered by many critics to be the best entry in its genre. The film is often categorized as blaxploitation, but Michael Campus, Max Julien, and others involved in its production have argued that the genre label oversimplifies the film. The film's soundtrack was recorded by Motown artist Willie Hutch.
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Cube maps can be useful for modelling outdoor illumination accurately. Simply modelling sunlight as a single infinite light oversimplifies outdoor illumination and results in unrealistic lighting. Although plenty of light does come from the sun, the scattering of rays in the atmosphere causes the whole sky to act as a light source (often referred to as skylight illumination). However, by using a cube map the diffuse contribution from skylight illumination can be captured.
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Current fracture predictions are based on historical, fracture-patient data sets to identify key factors which contribute to the increased probability of an osteoporotic fracture. This approach oversimplifies the mechanisms leading to an osteoporotic fracture and fail to take into account numerous, hierarchical factors which are unique to the individual. These factors span cell-level to body-level functions. Musculoskeletal anatomy and neuromotor control define the daily loading spectrum, including paraphysiological overloading events.
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Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry found ample proteins with molecular masses of 2-4 kilodaltons (corresponding with natriuretic peptide), 15 kilodaltons (type III Phospholipase A2), and 23-25 kilodaltons (cysteine-rich secretory proteins and kallikrein) in these secretions. Washington State University biologist Kenneth V. Kardong and toxicologists Scott A. Weinstein and Tamara L. Smith, have cautioned that labelling these species as venomous oversimplifies the diversity of oral secretions in reptiles, and overestimates the medical risk of bite victims.
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From findings of studies integrating race and class, and race and gender, the study argues that attending only to race, in this example, oversimplifies behavior analysis and may help perpetuate gender and class biases. To determine to what extent race, social class, and gender are integrated in the education literature, the study examined a sample of literature published over a ten-year period and 30 articles focused primarily on race, or on school issues related directly to race, such as desegregation.
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Siegfried Kracauer provides a critique of quantitative analysis, asserting that it oversimplifies complex communications in order to be more reliable. On the other hand, qualitative analysis deals with the intricacies of latent interpretations, whereas quantitative has a focus on manifest meanings. He also acknowledges an "overlap" of qualitative and quantitative content analysis. Patterns are looked at more closely in qualitative analysis, and based on the latent meanings that the researcher may find, the course of the research could be changed.
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As an enhancement, literary works can adopt the Polysystem Theory postulated by Even Zohar where social, cultural, literary and historical properties are considered. Skopos Theory as a functionalist theory inherently oversimplifies the linguistic situation of a text and that poses some difficulty in surveying contexts comprehensively. Vermeer and Reiß assertively frame disparate types of text relations using a general framework of skopos (purpose). This leaves out the intricacies of the source language and sentence meanings such as the lexical, syntactic and stylistic properties.
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A mother culture is a term for an earlier people's culture that has great and widespread influence on some later cultures and people. Though the original culture may fade, the mother culture's influence grows for ages in the future. Later civilizations either learn and build upon their old ways, or can learn them through peaceful or military assimilation. Although the term is used by anthropologists and archaeologists, it is used sparingly, since it oversimplifies and in some cases even misrepresents the relationships between cultures.
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Furthermore, social change may be generational rather than the sum of individual change. TRA fails to capture and oversimplifies the social processes of change and the social nature of the change itself: a model in which people collectively appropriate and construct new meanings and practice. Additionally, the habituation of past behavior also tends to reduce the impact that intention has on behavior as the habit increases. Gradually, the performance of the behavior become less of a rational, initiative behavior and more of a learned response.
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Krulik 1986, pp. 23-24 Fred Cassidy does not appear to be a complex personality, but he has two special abilities: he climbs buildings well because of his acrophlia and he has an extraordinary thirteen-year education in all the departments of the university. He is intelligent, cultured and experienced due to his education only, fallible, needs emotional maturity and experience, but does not dwell on his life's struggles very much. Lindskold believes that Krulik's view oversimplifies Zelazny's protagonists and proposes four classifications: heroic, morally ambivalent "heroes," more villain than hero, and ordinary people.
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Cognitive inertia has been causally implicated in disregard of impending threat to one's health or environment, enduring political values and deficits in task switching. Interest in the phenomenon was largely taken up by economic and industrial psychologists to explain resistance to change in brand loyalty, group brainstorming and business strategies. In the clinical setting cognitive inertia has been used as a diagnostic tool for neurodegenerative diseases, depression and anxiety. Critics have stated that the term oversimplifies resistant thought processes and suggest a more integrative approach that involves motivation, emotion and developmental factors.
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Bennett's critics, including historians James M. McPherson, Eric Foner, and Lucas E. Morel, believe that he ignores Lincoln's political and moral growth during the course of the Civil War. In addition, they surmise that Bennett oversimplifies the complexities of the period on issues of race when criticizing Lincoln. Unlike Bennett, they conclude that Lincoln was instrumental in creating the framework that emancipated the slaves in the United States. In a 2009 review of three newly published books on Lincoln, historian Brian Dirck referred to Bennett's 2000 work and linked him with Thomas DiLorenzo, another critic of Lincoln.
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Dispositional attribution is a tendency to attribute people's behaviors to their dispositions; that is, to their personality, character, and ability. For example, when a normally pleasant waiter is being rude to his/her customer, the customer may assume he/she has a bad character. The customer, just by looking at the attitude that the waiter is giving him/her, instantly decides that the waiter is a bad person. The customer oversimplifies the situation by not taking into account all the unfortunate events that might have happened to the waiter which made him/her become rude at that moment.
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The research predicated that there was a 88.9% chance that Osama bin Laden would be within 300 km of his last known appearance in Tora Bora. Although the paper did not specify a specific city, Abbottabad, Pakistan, where bin Laden was eventually killed, was within the allotted range at 268 km. Critics have said that the paper oversimplifies bin Laden's behaviors and fails to account for the cultural background of the region. Gillespie published his documentary about the global loss of natural plant diversity, The World’s Most Endangered Forests: The Tropical Dry Forests of Oceania, on University of California Television (UCTV) in 2010.
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The model is useful in describing hemoglobin's sigmoidal binding curve. The KNF model (or induced fit model or sequential model) arose to address the possibility of differential binding states. Developed by Koshland, Némethy and Filmer in 1966, the KNF model describes cooperativity as a sequential process, where ligand binding alters the conformation, and thus the affinity, of proximal subunits of the protein, resulting in several different conformations that have varying affinities for a given ligand. This model suggests that the MWC model oversimplifies cooperativity in that it does not account for conformational changes of individual binding sites, opting instead to suggest a single, whole-protein conformational change.
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Scherstuhl said not even common people would have their beliefs challenged and that they would "dismiss it as the vague liberal agitprop that it is". Similarly, while saying the film discusses important issues, both Genevieve Koski of The Dissolve and Jennie Kermode of Eye for Film said it deals with several themes quickly but does not expand upon any of them. Koski said, "The True Cost is methodical to a fault", while Kermode said it is "a good starting point" on the topic. Fashion critic Vanessa Friedman said it has an "easy-to- swallow accessibility" but that it "oversimplifies" some aspects of the industry.
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Critical reception for The Novelist has been mixed and the game holds a rating of 66 on Metacritic, based upon 18 reviews. In their review IGN expressed disappointment over the game only having limited endings, as they felt that this "oversimplifies what is otherwise a nuanced portrayal of the balancing act that goes on within families". Wired criticized what they saw as an overuse of personal notes, diaries, and pictures to show what the characters are thinking or feeling, as they found that this felt "ungenuine". Wired also panned The Novelist's stealth mode, and commented that it was "a mostly meaningless obstacle to the story".
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According to Grafen, these difficulties along with an initial conflict with population genetics models at the time of its introduction "explains why within biology the considerable scientific contributions it [The Selfish Gene] makes are seriously underestimated, and why it is viewed mainly as a work of exposition." According to comparative psychologist Nicky Hayes, "Dawkins presented a version of sociobiology that rested heavily on metaphors drawn from animal behavior, and extrapolated these...One of the weaknesses of the sociological approach is that it tends only to seek confirmatory examples from among the huge diversity of animal behavior. Dawkins did not deviate from this tradition." More generally, critics argue that The Selfish Gene oversimplifies the relationship between genes and the organism.
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Historical institutionalists make a similar critique as they argue that politics is shaped by policy feedbacks and path dependencies which mean that past policies cement or increase power asymmetries, which shapes the kinds of outcomes that are possible in the future. Rational Choice Institutionalism is a deductive approach which relies on theoretical model building to explain real world policy outcomes. Therefore, due to its foundation on abstraction and clear lines of reasoning, it oversimplifies human motivation and interaction. In the context of Latin American politics, Kurt Weyland has argued that Rational Choice Institutionalism is overly focused on politics as it is conducted in legislative institutions and elections, as well as the formal rules and formal institutions of politics.
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Other scholars have seriously questioned this conclusion, arguing it oversimplifies the politics and unity of labor leaders and the major parties. As one reviewer argued in The Journal of American History, major Republican leaders, such as President William McKinley and Senator Mark Hanna, made pro-labor statements, many unions supported their own independent labor parties, and unity within the AFL was never so extensive as claimed.Asher, "Review: Gwendolyn Mink, Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875–1920," Journal of American History, March 1988. Gompers poses with American officers for a photograph in front of an Italian villa, 1918 During World War I Gompers was a strong supporter of the war effort.
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First published in London by Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications in 1972 (in partnership with Tanzanian Publishing House), the book shaped the study of Africa in many disciplines.. Rodney wrote the text during his time in Dar es Salaam, during the presidency of Julius Nyerere. The scholar Karim Hirji has described it as "no doubt, the 20th century's most important and influential book on African history." In the late 1990s many academics became more sharply critical of the book's central thesis and argued that the book oversimplifies the complex historical forces surrounding the colonial era. This book was groundbreaking in that it was among the first to bring a new perspective to the question of underdevelopment in Africa.
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Likewise, neither compares homologous points, and global change is always given more weight than local variation (which may have large biological consequences). Eigenshape analysis requires an equivalent starting point to be set for each specimen, which can be a source of error EFA also suffers from redundancy in that not all variables are independent. On the other hand, it is possible to apply them to complex curves without having to define a centroid; this makes removing the effect of location, size and rotation much simpler. The perceived failings of outline morphometrics are that it doesn't compare points of a homologous origin, and that it oversimplifies complex shapes by restricting itself to considering the outline and not internal changes.
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It is honest about Owen's struggles, and the struggles of his family." Entertainment Weeklys, Joe McGovern also lauded the series saying, "The Suskinds' humongous hearts are obviously in the right place and their openness is to be admired and encouraged - even if a book, more than a movie, remains the better venue to fairly and honestly tell Owen's extraordinary story." Kyle Smith of New York Post explained, "Life, Animated oversimplifies the situation, contriving to use endless clips from Disney movies to make a case that movie magic really can better people's lives. Unfortunately, by the end of the movie it's clear that Disney can't help Owen negotiate sex, breakups or many other challenges he faces as an adult.
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Other hydrated forms, the Zundel cation , which is formed from a proton and two water molecules, and the Eigen cation , which is formed from a hydronium ion and three water molecules, are theorized to play an important role in the diffusion of protons though an aqueous solution according to the Grotthuss mechanism. Although the ion (aq) is often shown in introductory textbooks to emphasize that the hydron is never present as an unsolvated species in aqueous solution, it is somewhat misleading, as it oversimplifies infamously complex speciation of the solvated proton in water; the notation (aq) is often preferred, since it conveys aqueous solvation while remaining noncommittal with respect to the number of water molecules involved.
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The Nobel Laureate and former Chief Economist of the World Bank Joseph Stiglitz wrote a review of The Shock Doctrine for The New York Times calling the parallel between economic shock therapy and the psychological experiments conducted by Ewen Cameron "overdramatic and unconvincing" and claiming that "Klein is not an academic and cannot be judged as one. There are many places in her book where she oversimplifies." He also said "the case against these policies is even stronger than the one Klein makes" and that the book contains "a rich description of the political machinations required to force unsavory economic policies on resisting countries." Shashi Tharoor in The Washington Post says that The Shock Doctrine takes Klein's criticism of capitalism an important step further.
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It also appeared in a 1972 report to the Council on Library Resources. Helena Robinson (2012) criticized the term when she wrote, "[r]ather than revealing the essential affiliation between museums, libraries and archives, their sweeping classification as 'memory institutions' in the public sector and the academy oversimplifies the concept of memory, and marginalises domain-specific approaches to the cataloguing, description, interpretation and deployment of collections that lead museums, libraries and archives to engage with history, meaning and memory in significantly different ways." Memory institutions in the Digital Age The primary goals of memory institutions are to preserve and document the memory of society, but also to allow open access to collections. In the digital age, memory institutions are faced with the task of digitizing their analogue collections as well as taking in born digital materials.
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Subsequently, the filmmakers incorporated the theme more overtly in later installments; as a result, race moves from being a secondary motif in the first two films to becoming the major concern of the last three. Several critics have written that the reboot films downplay this theme from the original series, removing the racial subtext of conflict between humans and apes. These critics generally argue that this is to the films' detriment, writing that it softens the series' edge, leaves it thematically shallow, and marginalizes non-white characters; several critics have written that the films appear to invoke a "post-racial America", rather than exploring issues of race. Others write that the films incorporate racial themes in subtler ways, but that their presentation oversimplifies a complex message to the point of reinforcing racial norms rather than challenging them.
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Alternate methods include maximum parsimony (MP) that construct a sequence based on a model of sequence evolution – usually the idea that the minimum number of nucleotidal sequence changes represents the most efficient route for evolution to take and by Occam's razor is the most likely. MP is often considered the least reliable method for reconstruction as it arguably oversimplifies evolution to a degree that is not applicable on the billion year scale. Another method involves the consideration of residue uncertainty – so-called Bayesian methods – this form of ASR is sometimes used to complement ML methods but typically produces more ambiguous sequences. In ASR, the term 'ambiguity' refers to residue positions where no clear substitution can be predicted – often in these cases, several ASR sequences are produced, encompassing most of the ambiguities and compared to one-another.
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Barbara Tepa Lupack, who reviewed the English version of her early work based on Kurek's dissertation thesis (Your Life Is Worth Mine: How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, 1939-1945, 1997), commented that "Kurek's account of the Polish nuns' rescue efforts is [...] both compelling and historically significant" but "while Kurek's narrative is absorbing, her analysis of key issues is sometimes weak" as "she oversimplifies both the nuns' attitudes towards their Jewish charges and the Polish Jews' attitudes towards their own impending doom." She concludes that "Nevertheless, Your Life Is Worth Mine is an interesting volume [and] is a welcome addition to literature about the fate of children during the Holocaust." Kurek's 2001 work Dzieci żydowskie w klasztorach. Udział żenskich zgromadzeń zakonnych w akcji ratowania dzieci żydowskich w Polsce w latach 1939–1945 ("Jewish Children in Convents. The Participation of Nuns’ Congregations in the Rescue Operation of Jewish Children in Poland Between 1939–1945") was described as a pioneering work by Joanna Michlic.
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Lomborg argued, on the basis of cost–benefit analysis, that few environmentalist claims warranted serious concern. The book came under criticism by scientists noting that Lomborg misinterpreted or misrepresented data, criticized misuse of data while committing similar mistakes himself, examined issues supporting his thesis while ignoring information contrary to it, cherry picks literature, oversimplifies, fails to discuss uncertainty or subjectivity, cites mostly media sources, and largely ignores ecology. Michael Shermer, who debated Lomborg on several topics from his book, notes that despite the scientific consensus many people are driven to environmental skepticism by the extremism inherent in both sides of the debate and not having been exposed to a sufficiently succinct and visual presentation of the available evidence. In 2010, Lomborg refined his position and stated that he believes in the need for "tens of billions of dollars a year to be invested in tackling climate change" and declared global warming to be "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge humanity must confront".
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In Latin Rite Catholicism, the sacraments of Eucharist and Confirmation are only given to children who have the use of reason, and Holy Communion may be administered to children only if "they have sufficient knowledge and careful preparation so that they understand the mystery of Christ according to their capacity and are able to receive the Body of Christ with faith and devotion." Despite this, child evangelism advocates argue that children aged 3–6, who have only a rudimentary conception of right and wrong spelled out by their parents, should be evangelised. Many Protestants have expressed concern that young converts grow up to have a false understanding of the religion, and that widespread secularisation of Europe and North America is the product of false conversions in childhood. John F. MacArthur has been critical of evangelists coercing a profession of faith from children, especially when the evangelist oversimplifies parts of the religion in order to get a large number of children to "convert" in response to a formulaic presentation that is light on details.
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