Misuse of my work

It has just come to my attention that the scitizen.com repost of my recent piece on Pakistan (their version: The compounding crisis in Pakistan, my version: The compounding crisis in Pakistan) made it look as if I had plagiarized two sources, when I had not.

(I also took a snapshot of the page via WebCite: http://www.webcitation.org/5s7hcoRvR, in case someone at scitizen.com completely deletes the article in question.)

I just moments ago sent the following note to scitizen.com via their “Contact” page:

I’m the Lou Grinzo you list as a contributor. After reviewing the version of my recent posting on Pakistan you posted, I am requesting that you immediately stop using my posts on my site, The Cost of Energy.

In the Pakistan piece (http://scitizen.com/future-energies/the-compounding-crisis-in-pakistan_a-14-3565.html) some critical parts of the formatting have been lost. Specifically, my use of “quote boxes” and links to indicate when I was quoting another source was lost. This makes it look like I am plagiarizing someone else’s work, which i most clearly did not do.

A much less important but still significant point is that you simply appended the footnote at the bottom of my post as a continuation of the text itself. Someone even took the time to delete the footnote indicator in the text and at the beginning of the note itself and add a paragraph break at that point in the text.

Such treatment of my work is not acceptable.

Please stop using my material immediately.

You may reach me at [e-mail address] if you have any questions about this matter or to send me confirmation that you will stop using my work.