Amy wrote about steroid use. What if the author wrote about any other thing in history that has been banned for being abused and not used in a way that would be acceptable.

fatricide was about people who get killed in war by their own troops. Metaphorically it could be looked at as civilization hurting itself more than other things.

The saquatch paper could be looked at metaphorically as people not believing in anything anymore even if there is evidence all around.