I guess you can have something like a nofollow attribute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow although the incentives

I guess you can have something like a nofollow attribute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow although the incentives will be more confusing. There's an argument to be made that citing something to disagree with it should increase its prestige but not its credibility (to the extent that those can be separated): you're agreeing that it's important.