‘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.

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    3 months ago

    As a G6 and xdrip user, this absolutely mirrors my experience, and MANY of my frustrations. The fact dexcom’s app won’t give me a delta between current and last reading to understand how quickly im trending? Insanity - and they show no interest in making it better in any way, which really grinds my gears every time I give them money.