Imagine how much more reluctant families will be to accept a diagnosis now if there is a link in their minds with being a potential mass murderer -- even when there is no evidence whatsoever this is the case.

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In 1995, I covered the controversy when The New York Times and The Washington Post, where I then worked, published another manifesto, this one a 35, 000-word ramble by the mass murderer known as the Unabomber.

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