Re: [DIYbio] civil disobedience and diybio

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not so sure it will change. Individuals with rare blood diseases spend
> a fortune to get their medication, and yet I haven't heard of them popping
> their head around these parts (ever). By comparison, replicating an antibody
> production setup is pretty easy compared to the other projects that are
> sometimes discussed. So how expensive does it have to be before people
> wonder if they can just solve their own problems without spending $10,000/mo
> on a drug?
>
> Is it supposed to happen at $20,000/mo for a drug? Because those already
> exist too, and they aren't here either... even though it would be relatively
> simple (and much cheaper) to snatch up some cheapo postdocs or diybio
> enthusiasts to implement those projects.
>

From what I've been hearing, it's all about liability in the medical
industry. Doing medicine on the grey/black market will add cost simply
because it's illegal and that increases the risk for the operator.
Licensed/Insured doctors mess up and they get sued, when some
underground treatment screws up, how do you sue?

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