‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
The article discusses the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, an anarchist collective teaching people how to make DIY versions of expensive pharmaceuticals at a tiny fraction of the cost, calling it "right to repair for your body." It highlights their efforts to produce drugs like misoprostol, sofosbuvir, EpiPens, and Daraprim at significantly lower costs than their patented counterparts, challenging the pharmaceutical industry and issues of affordability and accessibility of medications.
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I would have liked to seen that phone call actually connect.
ild imagine we would hear the debate about covering the cost for research and development.
but then we would need a breakdown of what the current costs for all the medicines on the market are and maybe find a way to steer the debate towards morals and what alternatives we have.
could we fundamentally ask the question: is this working for us and is there another way?
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