It’s something of a SOP in fiction to describe harmful actions in a way that sounds correct, and for the most part is, but tweaking enough key details that if someone tried to imitate the fiction in real life they would fail, and ideally have a lot of trouble figuring out why they failed.
E.G. give a long, engineering-porn type description of the improvised bomb your heroes successfully use, but tweak a few chemical ratios so that in reality the bomb wouldn’t explode (or would explode in the wannabe bomber’s hands).
Or you could explain how to get away with murder, in such a way that anyone who commits a murder thinking they could use this method to get away with it would end up leaving a certain kind of evidence, so they would still be caught.
Oh, wait, there is something wrong with that plan.
It’s something of a SOP in fiction to describe harmful actions in a way that sounds correct, and for the most part is, but tweaking enough key details that if someone tried to imitate the fiction in real life they would fail, and ideally have a lot of trouble figuring out why they failed.
E.G. give a long, engineering-porn type description of the improvised bomb your heroes successfully use, but tweak a few chemical ratios so that in reality the bomb wouldn’t explode (or would explode in the wannabe bomber’s hands).
Or you could explain how to get away with murder, in such a way that anyone who commits a murder thinking they could use this method to get away with it would end up leaving a certain kind of evidence, so they would still be caught.
Oh, wait, there is something wrong with that plan.