My clinical doctorate capstone was used in someone else’s PhD thesis completely incorrectly. They said I built my project based on a theory I NEVER used or discussed. There are other instances of error but that one is the most obviously not just misinterpreted and just seemingly made up. Like, I might understand more if I could see how someone might interpret my work differently, but I’ve never researched or looked at the theory they mentioned and I do not see how you could even correlate any of the constructs to the theories I did use. My capstone is the foundation for a whole subheading (about 2 pages) of their dissertation. Moreso, they cited the conference presentation I did and not even my capstone paper so they would have had to extrapolate a whole section in their paper based off of a conference abstract. I don’t want to ruin someone’s career, but should I say something? What would I even say? I’m feeling much angrier about it than I would have anticipated. I’m in my own dissertation writing phase for my EdD so maybe I’m just jealous that they clearly didn’t have as tough of a chair as I do? I honestly just need to vent and looking for support right now.