There are two Reddit posts in r/AskAcademia and a more detailed and updated vroniplag page (this specific page contains solely segments from Andreas THeodorou’s thesis) about a case of academ…
They might literally have had some psychological issue, where they were trying to see how far they could push it without being caught.
Or this whole article could be a hit job - maybe the original thesis literally wrapped these sections with text saying “here is an example of a plausible attempt at plagiarism that would not get caught today - please do not quote me out of context here, m’kay?”. The devil is in the details, and I for one am not volunteering to put in the amount of effort it would take to properly judge this person.
They might literally have had some psychological issue, where they were trying to see how far they could push it without being caught.
Or this whole article could be a hit job - maybe the original thesis literally wrapped these sections with text saying “here is an example of a plausible attempt at plagiarism that would not get caught today - please do not quote me out of context here, m’kay?”. The devil is in the details, and I for one am not volunteering to put in the amount of effort it would take to properly judge this person.
Although I bet their bosses are, now.