DIY, pirated medicine is becoming increasingly accessible and easier to make due to automation, new tech, and new software developed and released by Four Thieves Vinegar Collective:
https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/
@jasonkoebler Wow! This is so worth reading
That's a terrific article. It triggered a thought: I see one weakness of capitalism is its decision problem (making choices using a single criterion: profit). This article made me think of a corollary problem: conditional cooperation, in which people cooperate only if there is a profit to be made.
Beyond capitalism, cooperative groups abound; within capitalism, cooperation is conditional on whether a profit can be made.
An $84,000 cure that costs $70 to make: obscene profit.
a system is, is what it does. it's not broken,. it's working as intended.
@jasonkoebler My daughter commented:
"Idea for a TV show about a rogue former high school chemistry teacher who makes pirate meds for people whose insurance won’t pay. I’d call it “Breaking Good”. 😜"
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So, the single most important thing about medicine is that we know it a) won't hurt us, and b) will work. In fact, it would be pretty reasonable to say that those are absolute basic requirements for something to be called medicine. Like many things in our society, these requirements are written in the blood of tens of thousands of people.
Can you explain to me how these folks will satisfy either of those requirements? Or how they've even attempted to begin the work of satisfying those requirements? Because obviously, if they're going to take to the mantle of harm reduction and talk about their work as a harm reduction effort for real, actually existing populations where other folks are also trying to do barn reduction work, they must have a very solid answer about how they're going to avoid doing harm, right?
Right?
Right?!
@jasonkoebler Correction: Daraprim isn't “HIV medication”; it treats fungal pneumonia in HIV patients, not HIV itself; Motherboard article corrects itself. Tbf, Motherboard said they made Cabotegravir too, which does treat HIV.
Biohacking's cool. Red flag theatrics though: tossing out unprescribed pills, calling a pharma CEO on stage (lied to get through, hung up on for that & a silly group name), swallowing a HepC pill on stage (which he didn’t need), inviting fed/pharma assassins at 57:03.
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