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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Surely. But let's be realistic. If you're poor and sick, you're broke and have no free time.