That's a fair point. I may not fully understand who he experimented on, but it seems like the target of experimentation for the professor here was the reviewers

That's a fair point. I may not fully understand who he experimented on, but it seems like the target of experimentation for the professor here was the reviewers and the journals, but he didn't experiment on people to write the paper, just that submitting the paper was the experiment. I feel that is maybe one layer removed from sending bad commits to real people then publishing the results, but I guess after thinking it all out they are close enough to pass a smell test and be critiqued along side each other! Thanks for your example.