Founder Of Four Thieves DIY Medicine Links To Leaked Chematica Database
By Aaron Kesel
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).
https://twitter.com/MichaelSLaufer/status/1022637265602768896
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.
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This is an example of the 5th wave tech that is part of the concatenation of nonpoint source production mechanisms empowering individuals to replace traditional industrial manufacturing with personal production.
Instead of buying light bulbs, doorknobs, forks, and now meds, we are going to be making our own. Considering that most of the cost of goods paid by consumers is profit, and much of the rest is transport, storage, and etc., the economic incentive to undertake DIY production of essential goods is huge. Mere economic incentive is not even the most compelling motivation, as the safety of industrial manufacturing is questionable at best.
For most of human history the majority of the goods we have consumed have been produced by ourselves, and our neighbors. Only recently have many goods become restricted to capital intensive industrial manufacturing. Given the rapid escalation of technology, and the advance in technology the goods we consume represent, there is a good reason (as well as many bad ones) for this paradigm shift.
There is a time lag between the discovery of new technology and it's dispersal to saturation in the general population. First adopters undertake relatively high expenses to craft new technologically based goods, but eventually the tech becomes inexpensive and commonly available.
The time is past for many technologies to have become dispersed, and profit to manufacturers dispensed with. We see that the artificial control of markets that has suppressed nonpoint source manufacturing is failing, and people are going to radically change markets by undertaking personal production of many, many products.
It is time for medicine to be restored to consumers, as the many controversies, such as over vaccine safety, what happened to Little Alfie, and more and worse consequences of industrialized medicine, have become of existential consequence - not to mention the medical industry has been captured by insurance companies, and almost all medical expenses paid by consumers are profit to insurance companies, regulatory costs, or utterly unnecessary.
Thanks!
For some reason I am having enormous trouble commenting on this post. No reason for it, as my ability to interact with other posts is not affected.
Quite strange!