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'''Jared Ledgard''' is the author of several error-filled works including, but not limited to:
 
'''Jared Ledgard''' is the author of several error-filled works including, but not limited to:
 
*A laboratory History of Chemical Warfare Agents
 
*A laboratory History of Chemical Warfare Agents
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No matter how plausible the "Procedures" may seem, do not follow any of them unless you want something to waste your time on or are applying for a Darwin Award.
 
No matter how plausible the "Procedures" may seem, do not follow any of them unless you want something to waste your time on or are applying for a Darwin Award.
  
There is not much information about Ledgard on the Internet, which-along with the ineffective procedures-would make one seriously doubt his qualifications as an organic chemist and inventor (No patents could be found under his name, which also seems to suggest that "Jared Ledgard" is a pseudonym,making his works even shadier).
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There is not much information about Ledgard on the Internet, which-along with the ineffective procedures-would make one seriously doubt his qualifications as an organic chemist and inventor (No patents could be found under his name, which also seems to suggest that "Jared Ledgard" is a pseudonym, making his works even shadier).
  
In short, Ledgard is what one might call a "Snake-oil man",but according to one ScienceMadness member,some have speculated that Ledgard's work is an example of deliberate misinformation.
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In short, Ledgard is what one might call a "Snake-oil man", but according to one ScienceMadness member, some have speculated that Ledgard's work is an example of deliberate misinformation.
  
 
==References==
 
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*[http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=65210 Please improve this post.]
 
*[http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=65210 Please improve this post.]
 
*[http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=65244 Snake Oil TNT]
 
*[http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=65244 Snake Oil TNT]
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*[http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=64727 jared ledgard at it again.]
 
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*[http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=30854 A laboratory history of chemical warfare agents a reliable book?]
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Latest revision as of 18:29, 7 February 2016

Jared Ledgard is the author of several error-filled works including, but not limited to:

  • A laboratory History of Chemical Warfare Agents
  • The Preparatory Manual of Explosives

Jared Ledgard's work offers detailed methods for the preparation of various "Taboo" compounds, but almost none of them work. Only a few of the methods described in the infamous Preparatory Manual Of Explosives work, the rest are hard to verify due to lack of citations or references.

No matter how plausible the "Procedures" may seem, do not follow any of them unless you want something to waste your time on or are applying for a Darwin Award.

There is not much information about Ledgard on the Internet, which-along with the ineffective procedures-would make one seriously doubt his qualifications as an organic chemist and inventor (No patents could be found under his name, which also seems to suggest that "Jared Ledgard" is a pseudonym, making his works even shadier).

In short, Ledgard is what one might call a "Snake-oil man", but according to one ScienceMadness member, some have speculated that Ledgard's work is an example of deliberate misinformation.

References

Relevant Sciencemadness Threads