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It never does make sense, and yet it really does happen. I think they start falsifying in small ways, often relatively early in their education, and get away with it (and even rewarded in some ways) over and over for years until they start thinking they'll never get caught. The same thing happens with politicians and their sex scandals.
Could be. In some environments "fudging" becomes so common that everyone in the circle thinks it's normal. When they're caught, they're surprised and feel they're being unfairly picked on because "everyone does it". Certainly an organization with rampant lack of ethics is likely to try to slide all the blame onto a single individual and call it "an isolated incident". While the person blamed is probably far from the only responsible person, it is unlikely they had no idea what they were doing. There are few true innocents in situations like this.
