DIY recipes to make your own expensive pharma drugs
As an Australian, i.e. someone who lives in a country which doesn&#x27;t assume that being poor is a good enough reason for someone to be allowed to die. As well as the brother of a scientist who often runs experiments involving the synthesis of new drugs, I had a torrent of extreme reactions to seeing that this site exists.<p>1. My immediate reaction was holy shit no, if a situation exists where your countrymen are trying to hack together potentially lethal drugs and medical procedures because you don&#x27;t have facilities in place to save them, then whatever political decisions you are making, whatever trade deals you are signing, whatever wars you are fighting: stop ALL OF THAT SHIT AND FIX THIS FIRST.<p>2. Oh my god what a terrible way to die. I understand that this site is probably well-intentioned. I know that for someone with access to a pharmaceutical lab and who has experience in the small-scale manufacture of drugs intended for consumption by living creatures (experiments) including humans (clinical trials) it may make sense that we could just synthesise our own drugs. But failing to recognise that there are very real and very likely scenarios where people will die because you (or someone with your expertise) are not on hand to help them immediately if they fuck up.<p>I can&#x27;t help but think that the existence of this site is a net harm to the world, there&#x27;s just no way the risk calculation is the same between a chemical engineer and a regular chap who needs medication as to the possibility of just making it at home. Making it seem like this is a thing you think that you should do just sounds like bad advice.<p>But on the other hand, I&#x27;m so appalled by the ability of America as a nation to do terrible things such as let its citizens die from treatable illness, that this kind of makes sense. It just feels like the wrong problem to be solving.<p>I mean, how about focusing on fixing the broken medical system, avoiding killing all the people who aren&#x27;t white and making it just a little harder for insane people to get guns. While you&#x27;re at it, you might even want to try and drop &quot;racist as shit&quot; from the assumptions of the rest of the world about your country.