>One of the great received wisdoms of the war on terror is that deadly recipes are available worldwide courtesy of the Internet. In the context of information on ricin, the meme presents regularly in the big media.
<snip> >Finally, the mythology of the recipe for ricin exposes one of the most nettlesome ironies of instantaneous world wide communication. Although it has always been promised that the ubiquity of networked computing would enable a host of alternative information sources, what is found is that -- in practice and when push comes to shove -- the allegedly vast ocean of alternatives all say the same thing, with only minor variations, all drawing from the same text, the same myth. The IIR #chemistry channel: >From our WoMD series: Practical ricin preparation complements a now redacted US >patent 3,060,165 >https://www.meshmx.com/fe/download_get.php?file=FE:3260610bc13ef573d9103c16e90bac53bead0eea John Poindexter Director Grand Duchy of Fenwick Institute for Strategic Studies
