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.

  • phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    36·
    12 days ago

    Yeah, no.

    Your body isn’t a simple laptop where you plug out some broken componi, replace that component, and you’re done. There is a reason why even “simple” nurses go through years of training before being able to call themselves nurses.

    If it comes to your body, shits complicated, yo!

    Everyone should, must have the right to good quality healthcare, but it can’t be from yourself, by yourself. You need a doctor!

    Even those trans humanist types that put magnets and such in their bodies are really on the edge with what will and won’t kill you. Add DIY CRISPR sets, which is just the worst thing I’ve ever heard, and you have arecipe for disaster.

    • Scolding7300@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      12 days ago

      There’s a difference between injecting unknown crispr mutations and replicating known chemical compounds. I would guess the main danger here is the impurity

      • Crikeste@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        I also don’t have faith that people would do it properly. Chemicals are weird and not following instructions or not knowing what you’re doing can lead to disaster.

        • Scolding7300@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          I just hope that at the very least those that try for their own use wouldn’t get penalized for it if they’re desperate enough to try

          • Crikeste@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            10 days ago

            I mean, that’s fair. I would just hate to see people seriously hurt themselves because they don’t have access to something. But that brings up a whole new conversation, and it’s just sad that we even have to consider this.

            Another aspect that came to mind is: people hurting themselves and ‘putting stress’ on the hospitals. Obviously that’s pretty unrealistic, might be a point someone would argue though.

    • Veddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      There is a difference between knowing which medicines to give someone. And then having that knowledge of which to choose (after seeing a healthcare professional), and then being able to buy (make) any brand of that item.

    • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      I have to agree. They really think everyone out there knows enough chemistry and medicine to pull this off. Even meth heads blow their house up occasionally. There is so much that goes into building a safe chemistry lab and you shouldn’t risk it. Hobby chemistry is one thing but you can’t skip school and become a professional just by buying a kit.