[the_cat_kittles]

if you need an example of a PhD claiming to have altruistic motives gone awry, look no further Ted Kaczynski

[contingencies]

His motives for the violence were to get published somewhere with serious readership... and he succeeded, IIRC?

[ufmace]

Now that's kinda funny to think about. He railed against technology, and his goal was to get his rants read. If it was a few years later, he could have published them on the internet, where anybody in the world could read it... if not for him being anti-technology in the first place.

[contingencies]

Potential readership online is huge, that is true. However, being published in a major global paper is more like a way to ensure immediate global readership. I think the distinction is important, and he was seeking the latter.