It’s true that cases like this can have a “pile on” phenomenon, where consensus builds against the accused and thereafter it’s hard for them to get anyone to listen. BUT from what I’ve read in Science and elsewhere, the case against her is very strong. And HBS is the sort of place that hates to publicly admit misbehavior by faculty, so if they could have made it go away, they would have. Since they didn’t, it suggests they decided the case was too strong to suppress.

Academic misbehavior (mainly errors caused by haste/laziness, not fraud) is a real problem in social sciences. I will read what you have with interest.