What's the worst you've ever been mis-cited?

Submitted by drupaladmin on 18 April 2012.

As an academic, sooner or later you'll be mis-cited. Sometimes badly. More than once as a reviewer I've had to correct authors who were trying to cite my papers (and those of others) in support of a claim that was actually the opposite of what those papers demonstrated! Which I suppose is the maximum mis-citation ("MMC"). Of course, those citations weren't actually published. But if I hadn't been the reviewer, I presume they would've been.

So what's the worst you've ever been mis-cited?

HT Ayco Tack for the idea for this post.

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