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Actively psychotic people used to complain that they were victims of CIA mind experiments, or that radio waves were controlling their thoughts. Boring old stuff, researchers report. Dr. Glenn Catalano, a psychiatrist at the University of South Florida says you can now add the Internet to the list of bothers. “That’s not really surprising,” he says. “Things can seem especially threatening when you don’t know much about them.” One 40-year-old man complained a friend had planted “Internet bugs” in his ears to read his mind, and put special links on his web page that, when clicked on, would cause one of his arms or legs to twitch. Catalano says psychiatrists are “going to have to start asking different kinds of questions” of patients. These days, “you can’t just ask if someone is following you.” (AP) ...At least web designers now have some great new ideas for extensions to HTML.


Publication Date: 25 July 1999

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