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Health/Medical Title: Founder Of Four Thieves DIY Medicine Links To Leaked Chematica Database The founder of the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, a network of tech-fueled anarchists and hackers taking on Big Pharma by introducing DIY medicine, linked to encrypted files to what rumor has it contain the Chematica database (which was acquired by Merck pharmaceuticals last year). Dr. Mixael S. Laufer tweeted out links to dark web tor websites with the purported encrypted data that he recently spoke about at HOPE conference. Laufer urged the audience to help with cracking the password to the database to release the data into the world, which as a result would bring a new age of DIY medicines. “I think it’s absolutely imperative that information about how to make your own medicines should be as easily accessible as possible to everyone who might have even a passing interest,” Laufer told Motherboard. “The goal of the group is to make it possible for people to be able to do these things on their own. The idea that someone could download the instructions, read the list of materials, order them, read the instructions for how to assemble it and program it, upload the code, order precursor chemicals, and then manufacture medicine.” Four Thieves’ g0al is to develop synthesis pathways that lower the risk of toxic reactions to the lowest possible level, according to Motherboard. When Four Thieves first began, they had help creating synthesis pathways from a startup company called Chematica, which had collected 250 years of research on organic chemical synthesis into a database and developed software that used synthesis pathways to desired molecules. With this database and software, Four Thieves was able to create simple and safe synthesis pathways that would produce life-saving drugs. “The rhetoric that is espoused by people who defend intellectual property law is that this is theft,” Laufer told me. “If you accept that axiomatically, then by the same logic when you withhold access to lifesaving medication that’s murder. From a moral standpoint it’s an imperative to enact theft to prevent murder.” “So yeah, we are encouraging people to break the law,” Laufer added. “If you’re going to die and you’re being denied the medicine that can save you, would you rather break the law and live, or be a good upstanding citizen and a corpse?” After the sale of Chematica to Merck last year, Four Thieves lost access to Chematica’s software and database. Laufer stated in the Motherboard interview that Four Thieves’ data science team created an open source version of Chematica’s software and has even compiled a small database of organic chemicals to test it on. However, they need more data to test the software. So far, Four Thieves has produced five working drugs. Although, only one DIY manual is available for Daraprim on the collective’s website. The Four Thieves also have a DIY EpiPen for $30 and MicroLab chemical synthesizer, with instructions on how to use the Microlab. The Four Thieves were even given an honorable mention for their work by the FDA. Although not by name, shortly after Four Thieves unveiled its $30 DIY EpiPen, the FDA issued a statement to the media stating that “using unapproved prescription drugs for personal use is a potentially dangerous practice.” The hackers and anarchists are threatening one of the world’s biggest industries, the pharmaceutical industry, which is valued at $446 billion in the United States alone. Will they be successful and disrupt Big Pharma by releasing DIY medical technologies that are cheaper than their competitors? Time will tell. This seems a potentially positive step for humanity to take back the reins from these megalithic pharmaceutical companies, especially if some hero password cracker steps up to decrypt the files.
Poster Comment: “The rhetoric that is espoused by people who defend intellectual property law is that this is theft,” Laufer told me. “If you accept that axiomatically, then by the same logic when you withhold access to lifesaving medication that’s murder. From a moral standpoint it’s an imperative to enact theft to prevent murder.” “So yeah, we are encouraging people to break the law,” Laufer added. “If you’re going to die and you’re being denied the medicine that can save you, would you rather break the law and live, or be a good upstanding citizen and a corpse?” Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Deckard (#0)
You mean the DIY medical technologies they stole.
Why would the pharmaceuticals create a medicine then deny it to people? What's the point? Perhaps by "being denied the medicine" the author means "being charged for the medicine". How dare the pharmaceuticals spend hundreds of millions of dollars on research then charge for the medicine! Heartless bastards!
First, you would have to accept the premise that 100's of millions of dollars are being spent on research for the medicine. Secondly, you need to see that the vast majority is spent bribing the proper authorities within the FDA to approve both the process, the drugs and the proper usage. In short, big pharma is a racket with everyone involved becoming millionaires on the backs of those they say they are helping. Then the lawyers become millionaires suing over the bad results of the same products. WHAT A COUNTRY .
THIS IS A TAG LINE...Exercising rights is only radical to two people, Tyrants and Slaves. Which are YOU? Our ignorance has driven us into slavery and we do not recognize it.
I do. "Almost 60 billion U.S. dollars are spent annually on pharmaceutical R&D purposes in the United States. Costs for developing a new drug have been increasing drastically over the last decades from under 200 million U.S. dollars in the 1970's up to over 2.6 billion nowadays." (https://www.statista.com/topics/1719/pharmaceutical-industry/)
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