Only eight results, is Google censoring, or are there really only eight pages that have this phrase? The front page story in the Chronicle yesterday was that polonium was available cheaply online, yet this CNN article calls it “one of the world’s rarest elements”, with only 100 grams being produced each year. Wikipedia says that even tiny amounts are dangerous, so maybe only a microgram is enough to kill?

“How to make polonium” also appears to be censored on Google, though it could just be that polonium was almost entirely disregarded up until now, or that most of the literature concerning it is holed up in scientific journals or classified documents.