Not only Buddhists, but also Daoist polemicists accused him of plagiarism. It has magnetized the imagination of ring theorists, and flushed out polemicists of every persuasion. This caused significant debate between Reformed polemicists and Roman Catholics. Gardner was one of the foremost anti-pseudoscience polemicists of the 20th century. Indignation against him on account of this book came from Protestant polemicists. Apart from improbable stories circulated by later anti-Isma'ili polemicists, his exact origin is unknown. Gay was one of the leading polemicists for the Christian democratic movement. Various Catholic polemicists identified Heraclid as a "Jew" or "not a Christian". Polemicists in the Spanish Netherlands pointed out the unoriginal nature of the symbol. Political polemicists use the term similarly, as in this headline of a 2004 blog posting. His use of satire and wit influenced later polemicists.