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

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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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[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 25 points 2 months ago

With the same risk to blindness as moonshine?

[-] HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 61 points 2 months ago

If you're going to die because you can't afford it, then does the risk really matter?

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago

And when you do die, you won't see it coming!

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