First_Principal
Someone who may be guilty of puffery, but is perhaps otherwise a decent person.
Would a decent person have deliberately "misrepresented" the expeditions, not once but several times? No.
Would a decent person attempt to cover up the "misrepresentation" once exposed? No.
Would a decent person attack and falsely accuse the people who have pointed out the "misrepresentations"? No.
Has she declined or returned any awards because they are based on falsehoods (or at best "misunderstanding") as a decent person would? No.
One is left with the inescapable conclusion that she is not, in fact, a decent person and so does not deserve sympathy.
The repetition of these things isn't going to change much from here on in
Sadly, not continuing to repeat these things is precisely what she and her
PR team are hoping will happen - they would like nothing more than for all the fuss to stop and be forgotten, so she can get on with her "inspirational" - and presumably lucrative - speaking engagements, and planning the next all-expenses paid jolly.
I assume from your post that you feel that profiting by deception is acceptable behaviour in the "other life out there beyond PPRuNe"?
There is a very simple way for her to put an end to the fuss - come clean, admit the deceptions, return the awards and then we can all return to the "other life out there beyond PPRuNe", as you so delightfully put it.
FBW