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With respect, I think you don't know what you're talking about. I've never seen cases where a researcher will cite a paper to poke fun at it. One might cite an erroneous paper in order to point out errors if one were interested in surveying the types of errors which occur in Science. However; (i) that paper is unlikely to be famous and; (ii) even then it's considered poor form to shit on your colleagues.



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