>>10083940Not a PhD here, but I did get away with a lot of bullshit like this on my way to Masters. Not proud of it, but huge financial and time constraints gave me little choice the first time I pulled it off.
After that I got lazy and wondered if there was a way to get through my course work ( which was becoming ever more tedious and time consuming ). I figured it was a matter of getting to know your Profs. Were they just educated idiots? Were they lazy? Were they incompetent? So I would test them by adding just a little bit of shit into my papers that was just outright absurd. If they pulled me up on it I would write it off as "Oh hell, that was from an unrelated draft I wrote for fun, I must have copy pasted into my final by mistake, sorry, it was late and I was tired"
"Heh heh, no worries Anon, just be more careful in future"
Then I knew I couldn't try to fool those particular Profs. So then after I played it straight and narrow with them.
But sometimes I would get away with it with other profs. Then I would go full monty with writing shit.
I was astounded how easy it was to get away with it and the number of Profs, ( about a quarter of them ) who simply let these works of fiction go right past their desks.
My guess is that were just complacent and lazy. I was a competent student and I think they just saw me a normie who would do the work and submit a passing paper. So they didn't bother checking it.