> Officials at the organization acknowledged in internal memos that Walter had padded his résumé, but they decided to reveal as little as possible about their i

> Officials at the organization acknowledged in internal memos that Walter had padded his résumé, but they decided to reveal as little as possible about their internal deliberations. “We do have to worry about public appearances,” Don Harper Mills, a pathologist who was chairman of the ethics committee, wrote to his colleagues. This sort of thing seems to be extremely common and it's immensely frustrating. More specifically, the phenomenon I mean is avoiding expelling fraudsters from one's organization on the basis that people, rather than thinking "oh it's good how this organization has high standards for its members and expels frauds, so other members are likely good", will instead think "oh this organization had a fraudster in it, other members are likely also frauds". The question then is, how can we get to an equilibrium where the former way of thinking is the norm, so that expelling frauds will be encouraged...?