Their method
X confuses …
X and Y confuse the issue
a misreading of …
The authors underestimate …
X and Y miss the point
It is very much an oversimplification to …
The authors fail to recognize US and GB or recognise GB …
The disadvantage of this approach is that …
A criticism of this explanation is that …
… an incorrect assumption
… unconvincing reasoning
… inadequate controls
… incorrectly assessed
… merely compounds the problem
X’s argument contains a number of inconsistencies: firstly, …
X’s argument that … is flawed.
X’s explanation of or for … is unconvincing
X’s explanation of … is hardly convincing
The author’s claim that … is not well founded.
the misleading statement that …
It is somewhat of an overstatement or exaggeration to claim that …
… contains a number of inaccuracies
a number of controversial viewpoints
In fact, the problem is more complex
The author fails to take … into account
X and Y take little or no account of …
The authors have, however, failed to take account of …
There is little or no systematic examination of …
The study fails to answer the question of or whether …
A problem with this argument is that …
the same problem also applies to …
There is little or no evidence to suggest that …
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