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by ravel-bar-foo 1732 days ago
Automated synonym replacement is the current cutting edge in plagiarism, or more generously, avoiding automated plagiarism detection. There was recently a large scandal in which some large number of scientific papers were traced to a ghostwriting house via their automated synonyms.

So my guess would be that the science news "author" is rewording things to avoid stepping on another author's copyright.

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> So my guess would be that the science news "author" is rewording things to avoid stepping on another author's copyright.

And doing it badly...