Sounds like you're in awe of someone who has learned to play a game to his own benefit, but to the detriment of the larger institution (i.e. science) of which he is a part.
From the original description "detriment of the larger institution" might be inappropriate.
After all he gave more than 25 other people a chance to publish.
And if we assume that some of those experiment involved master students then for a few of them that was their first publication. It look like he was kind of a unmoral presence from many point of view, but you cannot ignore that he probably helped many people get more experience.
Again I am not claiming that what he did was right, but it is neither necessarily a detriment to science.
