Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses.

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.

    • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Commercial drugs are giving people life long diseases on top of the ones they’re trying to cure?

      News to me, got any source?

      • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        4 months ago

        The most notorious is probably thalidomide, but there are plenty others on this list of withdrawn drugs that cause long-term side effects.

        • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          Very interesting, I wasn’t aware of specifics. Obviously I don’t think it’s impossible, but I would think that the grand majority don’t, while this bootleg technique would have a higher rate of creating worse problems for people already suffering and essentially sealing their fate.

          We need to tackle big pharma for the problem it is: greed and neglect and I don’t think a pirated solution will make that in any way better for people.

          Maybe it does for some but hurts others worse. Which is the same coin as big pharma but worse for some. That’s my perspective, but I hope that an open-source style solution would gain more traction rather than one that’s essentially just ripped music.

          People deserve to be healthy