Actually, it's that you can't trust his opinions at all, and that you should take his technical revelations with a grain of salt.
Of course, his whole agenda -- to expose secrets to the world -- looks like little more than a juvenile attempt to gain attention. And we must admit that he's a sharp enough to be pretty successful at it.
So because he bills himself as "...Pike is widely noted for his ability to translate complex technical information into concise and pithy soundbites. He has consistently provided insight and understanding of world affairs, military, space and satellite technology to policy makers, the press and the public at large. " let the buy beware.
Of course, his whole agenda -- to expose secrets to the world -- looks like little more than a juvenile attempt to gain attention. And we must admit that he's a sharp enough to be pretty successful at it.
Washington Post Column on John Pike --Stone, a PhD mathematician from Stanford, acknowledged that his star staff member [Pike] attended Vanderbilt but never got a degree. "I view him as the Edwin Land of our community - Land never graduated from Harvard. He was a great genius, and he didn't have time for college," Stone said. "John didn't have time for anything that didn't interest him. As opposed to working on lost causes, John works on things that are ripe for media attention - and he's been far more successful at managing the media than any scientist at FAS."