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…Maintaining an appearance of rationality is crucial to one’s reputation, i.e. the credibility one requires to be a trusted source of information among her peers, e.g. colleagues, co-workers, hiring committees.^[1]

^[1] This charade is akin to inflating one’s resume to outperform equally qualified applicants for a job position, which, unless stretched beyond all plausibility, is not something we consider reprehensible. In fact, we’ve classes on how to inflate ourselves to beat out others in a job competition. It’s a good thing we don’t think too hard about this move or we wouldn’t sleep for the people whose lives are broken by not being the successful candidate. 

(From my archives – P)