A number of years ago I read an article written by Ayyadurai in which he claimed to have invented email. Okay, fine. Maybe he did. But then I followed the links he provided as evidence.
All the links were to websites he himself owned! Anybody who would do something like that Id treat with deep suspicion.
It would be as if I had claimed to have invented, say, toothpaste. And then as evidence I cite a paper written by me.
Hell, I am running for US Senate though I doubt anyone will vote for me, me included.