As joint editors-in-chief of Ethnologia Europaea we would like to conclude this exchange between Jojada Verrips, Oscar Salemink and Peter Jan Margry concerning the publication of Margry’s article “On Scholarly Misconduct and Fraud, and What We Can Learn from It” published in Ethnologia Europaea vol. 49(2), 2019, with a brief statement from our point of view. We do this not only to bring closure to a heated debate but also to direct attention to a very important lesson we think we can all learn as scholars of the fields of anthropology and ethnology: that scholarly misconduct is one of the hardest issues to deal with, not only on an administrative level but especially among peers.