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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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[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Idk. Medicine is one of those skills where I prefer someone that has studied for 7 years vs me who watches a 15 min how to video and read webmd

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Obviously the people who would benefit most from this technology would prefer a doctor and pharmacy to be involved as well. The point is that personal preference doesn't really mean much when the preferred option is inaccessible and the alternative is death or a dramatically reduced quality of life. You do the best with what you have.

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[–] oce@jlai.lu 7 points 2 months ago (7 children)

He does mention the fact that medicine research is hard and requires money but doesn't explain how to solve that. This is a big argument of big pharma prices, they say it finances future research. I think a good example is how incredibly fast we got a COVID vaccine. It happened because private investors had massively invested in research platforms and they invested because they are expecting gains.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t it the case that a lot of the research is funded by governments through universities and then the pharmaceutical companies come in and scoop up the IP and charge crazy prices.

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 months ago

Not only that, but then they go and blow half of their budget on adverts instead of R&D.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

How to solve it is simple, our tax dollars already pay for the research, the results are public property

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[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Hope John Green is aware of this. He's fighting tuberculosis globally!

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

While this is definitely an interesting proposition, for most people in the US wouldn’t something like Mark Cuban’s CostPlus drugs website be a more reasonable solution?

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

They don't have everything and especially rare mega expensive stuff that's not widely generic options

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