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by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 606 days ago
> rewrite it from scratch ... in lieu of actual learning

If one can "rewrite it from scratch" in a way that's actually coherent and gets facts correct, then they learned the material and can write an original paper.

> This is waay more common and just impossible to catch.

It seems a good thing that this is more common and, naturally, it would -- perhaps should, given the topic -- be impossible to catch someone cheating when they're not cheating.