DIY Epipen: the $30 Epipencil

I did enjoy the history lesson on the use of the honorific “doctor.” (Really, it was interesting.) But that is history, literally. Do tell us, though, what special medical insights a doctorate in mathematics confers?

I find their claimed idea of an automated lab to create drugs interesting and provocative but I have no way to know to what degree it is really possible, safe or efficacious. What I do know is that even as they are advocating breaking IP laws they don’t understand correctly which one’s they are breaking. From the FAQ:

[quote]Aren’t you stealing from the patent holders of the medication, when you make it yourself?
No. You are violating their copyright[/quote]

Uh, no. Really, no. You are violating their patents. You can’t “copyright” a chemical or drug.

If their advice on actual medicine is as bad as their advice on IP law then I’d think a lot of people are going to die. One hopes they are better at chemistry than law, but this gross error does not instill confidence in their attention to detail or their ability to understand fields outside their own.

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