Red Mercury is a fine article for a conspiracy theorist or scam artist.

If I had the patience and time to fight it to the ground, I'd Afd the sucker.

Don't do that! I think I just saw it in a Star Trek movie. At least offload it to Memory Alpha.

Poking around, blue mass is a real mercury compound used in 19th century medicine.

Can't see any reason for the gluey, distended mass that is the Red Mercury article though.

I can....it's a jeremiad being pursued by Sam Cohen, a world-famous atomic scientist who seems to be getting a little crazy in his old age.

Yes, frightening how much mercury has been used in medicine. Heres an official description from a book published by The American Medical Association as recently as 1913. Seems its not a compound but a mixture of liquid mercury with various goos.

http://chestofbooks.com/health/materia-med...P-quot-Blu.html

I agree about Red mercury too.