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.

  • RangerJosie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    105·
    15 days ago

    Piracy is how you got Netflix.

    This is how we’ll change the pharmaceutical industry. They’ll overreact and Streisand Effect this and it’ll blow up. Become normalized. The open source tech will improve.

    This is a good thing. Period.

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      The all new sudafeb…like Sudafed but with a D at the end because they’re chemically the same just with a D at the end.

    • dovahking@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      I wish there was some kind of open source collective organization under which you could release anything with eternal open source license that’d be free forever. It could be anything from software, tech or medicine like penicillin so that megacorps could not benefit from it in any way.

      • ArchRecord@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        2·
        13 days ago

        The Open Source Initiative has a giant list of licenses that anyone can use to make their works fully open-source.

        Some are just for code, but I’m sure they could be adapted to things like medicine, if needed.