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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine (www.404media.co)

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You wouldn't pirate a medicine, would you?

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[–] Sethayy 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As someone with a chemistry background I'm surprised you think the industry even takes half these precautions for our current drugs.

Not even talking about 'state of the art' meds here were talking the plastics from cars that've been around since the 60's is under studied (but hey its sponsored by oil money so its 'safer')

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

The global medical community had to beg the US to ban lead from consumer products like paint and gasoline for close to 80 years and our politicians kept taking bribes from lobbyists to ignore medical science.... But did we learn from that and ban lobbying? Nope, lobbyists are now bribing politicians to ignore the plastic epidemic and global warming