‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine - eviltoast

Sharing because I found this very interesting.

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has a DIY design for a home lab you can set up to reproduce expensive medication for dirt cheap, producing medication like that used to cure Hepatitis C, along with software they developed that can be used to create chemical compounds out of common household materials.

  • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub
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    2 months ago

    Commercial drugs are giving people life long diseases on top of the ones they’re trying to cure?

    News to me, got any source?

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      The most notorious is probably thalidomide, but there are plenty others on this list of withdrawn drugs that cause long-term side effects.

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        Very interesting, I wasn’t aware of specifics. Obviously I don’t think it’s impossible, but I would think that the grand majority don’t, while this bootleg technique would have a higher rate of creating worse problems for people already suffering and essentially sealing their fate.

        We need to tackle big pharma for the problem it is: greed and neglect and I don’t think a pirated solution will make that in any way better for people.

        Maybe it does for some but hurts others worse. Which is the same coin as big pharma but worse for some. That’s my perspective, but I hope that an open-source style solution would gain more traction rather than one that’s essentially just ripped music.

        People deserve to be healthy