<story><title>Anarchists making their own medicine (2018)</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dekhn</author><text>I know a bunch about pharma.   The folks who are doing this and saying it&amp;#x27;s cheaper are often completely neglecting costs that are borne by corporations: the initial R&amp;amp;D, but also the immense amount of quality control and regulatory compliance.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also talked to the biohackers. S ome of them are smart, careful, and just get stuff done in the lab.  Then there are the attention hogs who inject themselves on youtube (typically with no ability to know if they did anything at all), many of whom, after a few years, realize that what they are doing is naive, and that there was actually a reason for the entire establishment around pharma.</text></comment>
<story><title>Anarchists making their own medicine (2018)</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nynx</author><text>I hope we can eventually have self-contained machines that can synthesize many different types of medications. By certifying the machines or testing them thoroughly, you can lessen the worry that people will synthesize the drugs wrong.&lt;p&gt;I think this is almost possible for a large range of simple, small-molecule drugs.</text></comment>