Wansink applied to the phd program I'm in for graduate school, and didn't get it, and then he applied for a professor position at my school and didn't get it. O

Wansink applied to the phd program I'm in for graduate school, and didn't get it, and then he applied for a professor position at my school and didn't get it. One of the faculty members told me she thought it was "a missed opportunity." One thing I have trouble figuring out: is this indicative of a long-term trend? Or did his success create an expectation he couldn't keep up with and so felt a need to rush (or cheat)? Incidentally, there is another professor at my school who has built a career out of exposing similar problems in research (especially p-hacking). It takes a brave person to inhabit that niche. It is a service to the research community, but I'll bet he sits alone at conferences.