After reading the Spirit Molecule it was absolutely clear to me that the whole pineal thing is a wild speculation, a hypothesis, a proposal. But most of the non-scientific stuff are easily misled and  confuse the terms hypothesis and fact.

The thing that these hypotheses are coming from a credible and authoritative person like Dr. Strassman makes things more confusing to non-scientific folk; after all, he's trained and experienced enough to make good hypotheses and good guesses to further our current understanding, right?

But not everything that scientists hypothesise turns out to be correct or true. Pretty much the opposite in most of the cases as they often admit. Dr. Strassman should have definitely made more clear that his speculations are purely hypothetical, that's why many people nowadays believe in the "dmt from the pineal" craze.