I didn’t look too deeply into the scandal about plagiarism (because seeing people I admire fight like kids makes me sad), but I saw one glimpse: one accusation

I didn’t look too deeply into the scandal about plagiarism (because seeing people I admire fight like kids makes me sad), but I saw one glimpse: one accusation was comparing the Literature section of two papers by a PI and their Ph.D. student, and finding the two first paragraphs matched. Dude, that’s the “You must read this before taking the class” segment of the paper. It’s a human-legible context for the Reference list (and occasionally, the opportunity for some minor pettiness against the competing lab). No one reads it (except Master’s students trying to catch up), and of course, it’s copy-pasted between two papers on the same topic. After that, I kind of skipped the topic.