Another tactic I&#x27;ve seen from the Lord Voldemorts I know is to cite loads of references that aren&#x27;t readily available online.  Such a citation can be used to prop up _any_ argument, whether or not the citation actually supports the argument, or even has any bearing on it at all.  It&#x27;s the same trap, though.  To disupte the citation, you have to wait months for an inter-library loan, read the cited work in detail, and then decide what it really has to say about the argument.<p>I personally fell into this trap, not because I was trying to refute something, but because I was trying to back up one of my own assumptions and I found that Lord Voldemort was citing Obscure Reference X to back up the same assumption.  The joke was on me when I actually tracked down Obscure Reference X in the 30-years-out-of-print proceedings of a symposium on Y.  Obscure Reference X had nothing at all to say about my assumption!  Needless to say, I no longer trust Lord Voldemort or anyone who publishes with him.