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26. they didn't 'take him'
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 01:42 PM
5 hrs ago

...and the treatment described could have been the course of most any psychiatrist at the time.

Attaching the CIA to it as if they've the equivalent of Dr. Strangelove elevates them to a fictional level of effectiveness that isn't evident in anything.

Transposing all of this projection about the study he participated in onto an anti-social desire to murder his peers and classmates is really just fantasy derived from movies and fiction novels.

It's a shame how they get people to repeat bullshit like this.

There's a clear enough rationale for why he terrorized and killed other than playing into his fantastical rants about 'technology' and the people he hated.

But, hey, do get a hold of that professor and stop him before he mass murders, if it's not too late!

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Yikes! yellow dahlia 21 hrs ago #1
The MK ULTRA program was designed to observe the unsuspecting MagickMuffin 21 hrs ago #2
What, exactly, was the CIA hoping to discover? Baitball Blogger 8 hrs ago #14
Supposedly for interrogation, but really for creating and controlling assassins. Kid Berwyn 6 hrs ago #21
Wow 😳 MustLoveBeagles 21 hrs ago #3
Wow.... just WOW. Talitha 21 hrs ago #4
I don't know if it's true, but I've read many times Haggard Celine 21 hrs ago #5
Countless troops got to watch above ground nuke testing. eggplant 19 hrs ago #7
I haven't read the manifesto but wonder how accurate have been his predictions. CoopersDad 21 hrs ago #6
Kaczynski murdered 3 people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995 bigtree 10 hrs ago #10
I'm more interested in the complete lack of punishment for the apparatus that created him lostnfound 9 hrs ago #12
there's no evidence that LSD and belittling him 'created him' bigtree 8 hrs ago #13
Silly little experiments? No way. lostnfound 8 hrs ago #15
he didn't believe he was 'tortured' bigtree 7 hrs ago #18
Yeah, it's real funny MorbidButterflyTat 5 hrs ago #29
you can come to any conclusion you want of you project enough of what you want into it bigtree 4 hrs ago #32
All good points. yellow dahlia 5 hrs ago #27
So the CIA takes a 16 year old kid (not yet an adult) wnylib 5 hrs ago #23
they didn't 'take him' bigtree 5 hrs ago #26
What a bizarre sense of humor. wnylib 3 hrs ago #34
the humor is directed at the absurdity of transposing all or even any of that on this terrorist bigtree 3 hrs ago #37
OK. I'll take the critique of the analogy between wnylib 2 hrs ago #42
did they really give him LSD, or is that just included in the report bigtree 2 hrs ago #43
I thought your letter to the editor was good and totally valid lostnfound 3 hrs ago #36
I was relatively young bigtree 3 hrs ago #38
That's obviously the CIA's fault and done on purpose. Blue Full Moon 6 hrs ago #22
nonsense. Apparently, it also caused Kaczynski to earn his doctorate degree from U of Michigan bigtree 5 hrs ago #24
Unethical human experimentation in the United States blue-wave 19 hrs ago #8
Wow that's shocking in scope lostnfound 14 hrs ago #9
Kaczynski himself said the experiments had no significant effect on the course of [his] life" bigtree 10 hrs ago #11
How the h*** would he know, he was mentally ill? Nt lostnfound 8 hrs ago #16
lol. I'd reason every person who is driven to attack or kill someone is mentally ill to some degree bigtree 7 hrs ago #17
No problem with LSD. My shock was learning that a weird fringe program and weird fringe criminal had a nexus. lostnfound 4 hrs ago #33
Unabomber Decoded: Did Harvard Study Fuel Rage? Goonch 7 hrs ago #19
from your article bigtree 5 hrs ago #25
Oh! Of course! MorbidButterflyTat 4 hrs ago #30
blaming that study for his unibombing is really something bigtree 4 hrs ago #31
My view of it is a bit more subtle than thinking he was triggered decades later lostnfound 2 hrs ago #41
Uncle Sam did evil things to children with radiation. Kid Berwyn 6 hrs ago #20
bullying always bad. + amerikkka elected the worst bully. pansypoo53219 5 hrs ago #28
Accomplices to murder? n/t returnee 3 hrs ago #35
Whitey Bulger, also. Mc Mike 2 hrs ago #39
His was pronged child abuse. delisen 2 hrs ago #40
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