10 Year’s after my father got his PhD., he and a fellow student sued their advisor for plagiarism. The guy had been stealing other people’s work for years.
“The guy had been stealing other people’s work for years.”
Academics is full of people who will fudge data, screw over colleagues, and a variety of other sketchy self-promoting things in order to ensure their place in the hierarchy. As long as they bring in grant money, the administrators don’t care.
PhD candidates are slaves for their supervising professor.