If you actually try the anarchists cookbook, you will find many of the recipes don't work or work that well.

Quite a few of them work just fine. Dissolving styrofoam into gasoline isn't exactly rocket science. Besides that, for every book that tells you made up bullshit, there are a hundred other books that give you real advice for how to create mayhem and destruction.

Or explode. The FBI scrapes up the remains of a few of these a*holes every year.

So it's just like every other cookbook then.

Pretty sure a similar sentiment was present when printing press came about. "Just think about all the poor souls exposed to all these heresies".