system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is there a term for this?

I have been noticing lately that certain public intellectuals have the tendency of stuffing into the endnotes hundreds of pages worth of sources. This would theoretically make them easier to factcheck, but in reality, because of time constraints, almost no one actually does that. So it becomes a way of putting on a facade of having a firmer basis for your arguments/being well sourced when in reality, the sources that I *do check* are usually much more nuanced, quoted out of context, distorted, is tangentially relevant (irrelevant even), or straight up don't support the argument they are trying to make.
gpt
Using sources that you've not actually read or stating that a source says something that it doesn't falls under *False Citation*.   

As for reasons you've stated it can be hard to find, but some universities class it as academic fraud alongside plagiarism or multiple submission.