@rawsalerts Thinking about how many liberal O-chem professors would brag about "how easy it is to make {biological agent}" in class. I had at least 3 pretend to be conspiratorially quiet only to whisper their "oh don't do this but if you wanna know how....." crap to a class of 300 students.
Always bugged me, something about gay nerds really makes them love that wannabe spycraft crap. But I have to wonder if it's still happening today, given the ideological bent you have to have to not be winnowed out of academia. Kinda doubting the idea that there are cold war DoD guys in the system - all ours were beyond retirement age 10 years ago