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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This is fantastic. If you know what the problem is, because you've been diagnosed or whatever, and you know what medicine will do it, and you are capable of making it, I see no issue at all with this. You don't need a PhD in computer science to browse the internet.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You've gone to a malicious website. Now you've died.

See, the risks of surfing the web incorrectly are slightly different than the risks of creating medicine incorrectly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You've committed the "crime" of being poor while diagnosed with a lethal (but curable) illness that you can't afford. Now you've died.

See, the risks of being poor are slightly different than the risks of not being poor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Surely. But let's be realistic. If you're poor and sick, you're broke and have no free time.