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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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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Haha that name is fantastic! It’s a riff on the best selling vinegar that you get at Costco and similar places called “Four Monks” vinegar.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Actually it's the name for a mix of vinegar, garlic, and herbs that was a home remedy to help prevent the plague.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Oh interesting, I guess I had the name attribution backwards!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_thieves_vinegar