Tom Bissell

I like reading books with both hands, with my heart pumping, with blood on the page. So I'm interested in people who make stuff, and I'm interested in the lives that make the text. To read a book or watch a movie any other way, to me, personally, feels like a waste of time and misapplication of energy.

American Journalist

N. K. Jemisin

There's a tendency in American thought - maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best - to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.

American Writer

Misapplication implies a negative outcome from using something wrongly.

Negative Connotations

Misapplication can refer to both intentional abuse or an honest mistake.

Intentional or Accidental

The impact of misapplication can vary greatly depending on the context.

Context Specific

 supposedly repressed memories of childhood abuse that never happened. Lives and families were torn apart. You can’t blame Freud for later misapplications of his work— that would be projecting. Plenty of his ideas were harmful without any misapplication.