To be honest, I'd much more happily hire soneone with the guts to admit their (or their co-authors) mistakes rather than someone who seems and claims having don

To be honest, I'd much more happily hire soneone with the guts to admit their (or their co-authors) mistakes rather than someone who seems and claims having done everything 100% correct during their previous career. At least according to my experience as a researcher in geosciences, I'd be ready to claim that borderline fraud (i.e. being too sloppy about the data, even if not with explicit bad intentions) is waaay more common than generally thought or admitted. She at least had the guts to do something about it. This is also a great story about hiw important it is to fund research that tries to verifie previous research. That is virtually non-existent in the current academic world.