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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 months ago by ArchRecord@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a difference between injecting unknown crispr mutations and replicating known chemical compounds. I would guess the main danger here is the impurity

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I also don’t have faith that people would do it properly. Chemicals are weird and not following instructions or not knowing what you’re doing can lead to disaster.

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just hope that at the very least those that try for their own use wouldn't get penalized for it if they're desperate enough to try

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I mean, that’s fair. I would just hate to see people seriously hurt themselves because they don’t have access to something. But that brings up a whole new conversation, and it’s just sad that we even have to consider this.

Another aspect that came to mind is: people hurting themselves and ‘putting stress’ on the hospitals. Obviously that’s pretty unrealistic, might be a point someone would argue though.