In the end, everything boils down to your word.
Did you speak the truth? Did you do what you said you were going to do? If you failed in those, what did you do? Self-disclose and do the right thing, or had it discovered by someone else, where you denied even more?
Your integrity is the record of your word. One who constantly deceives has no integrity. He cannot be trusted. You don't have to be 100% perfect, no one is. However, if you are wrong and you don't address it and make it right, I want nothing to do with you. This is why I do not believe in "GLOBAL WARMING/COOLING." I remember in the 70's when scientists were begging the President to sprinkle coal dust over the entire Arctic ice cap to stop "GLOBAL COOLING."
Considering the screaming over "GLOBAL WARMING" we have today, imagine how much worse it would have been if we had covered the Arctic in coal dust. I am intelligent enough to know the planet has cycles where things heat up and cool off. These cycles are thousands of years in length and the power to significantly affect them is way beyond our moral abilities. Humans trying to "stabilize" the climate is like an ant trying to stop an elephant.
Then we have this: The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever. The data has been "fudged." Changed. Altered. Modified to show something that is not happening, in order to say that what is not happening really is happening. This lie, and there is no other word for it, ruins and forever taints the word and integrity of every scientist involved in the study of the climate. When the very data that is used is untrustworthy, because of mis-collection or outright manipulation, those who did this will never convince me that they are correct. Any chance that existed went right out the window, and we're on the 87th floor. If I can't trust you, I will have nothing to do with you.