[guiraldelli]

Without evidence, your comment is just bad mouthing.

I have been involved in academia, including in Brazil, and I don't find academia there any more copycat than any other institution, including top tier ones.

[boca_honey]

This is very easy to prove [1][2]. Brazil has that reputation in the broarder academic world, and it's for a reason.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17511...

[2] https://www.scielo.br/j/aac/a/xNytDrrrHdyK4XPcHBRJZmd/?lang=...

[avdelazeri]

One study about faculty hiring people they know, and the other about high school students cheating on assignments... What was the original claim again?