>In my view this should mark the end of their careers. They should be welcomed to see the error of their ways and try again with better ethics. While I emphati

>In my view this should mark the end of their careers. They should be welcomed to see the error of their ways and try again with better ethics. While I emphatically agree with the gist of your comment, the one problem I have with the quoted part above is that I don't see how the first sentence squares with the second. When Stephen Glass was found to have fabricated stories for the New Republic, he wasn't given a do-over. He had to switch careers. I think that's the right way to handle fabrication.