However, more recent scholarship has shown that not only are such condemnations unfair, neither are they entirely true.
Later scholarship showed this to have been an erroneous interpretation of a corrupted text.
Later scholarship has also shown that the biggest problem with the Soviets' early development was not problems designing the weapons, but rather problems getting the materials.
"The traditional belief is that there wasn't much influence in Canada, but more recent scholarship shows that there was," he said.
Recent scholarship has shown that they were not the author.
Robert Stern is a scholar as well as a designer, and his scholarship shows at 222 in the motifs drawn from architectural history.
But his own scholarship shows quite the opposite.
Dionysius was anywhere from three to five years off in his reckoning of Christ's birth, subsequent historical scholarship has shown.
Recent scholarship has shown that women used curse tablets for erotic magic much more than originally thought, although they were still in a minority.
True, recent scholarship shows that the clavichords Bach knew were not quite as feeble as those built in the early-20th-century revival of the instrument.