@Plinz Here is another one of his past brilliant ideas: Pentagon Prepares A Futures Market On Terror Attacks https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/us/threats-responses-plans-criticisms-pentagon-prepares-futures-market-terror.html …
None of that must mean that he is furthering a nefarious agenda (if he did, he would not advertise unpopular ideas). It may just mean that he thinks that the future is going to be unpopular, and that the unpopularity of his ideas suggests a publication bias towards popular ideas.