Biohackers discover that making vaccines is hard: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-10/home-made-covid-vaccine-appeared-to-work-but-questions-remained
In theory, I am in favor of democratizing science and I like the idea of someone having a do-it-yourself attitude but when it comes to vaccines, this may be a domain of knowledge where we should trust expertise.
@BlueStateBabe That makes two of us. Like when Robert Willner injected himself with HIV on television. (Clearly, the subject of this article is lite years away from that unscientific nonsense, just saying that I was reminded of it.)
Vaccines could be a domain where F/OSS could work, except that would only benefit people, not shareholders.
Perhaps medicine needs to be disrupted by Open Source thinking and a GPL style license.
@stark Vaccines should 100% be open, obviously for the humane reasons that they save lives and because they are almost always publicly funded anyway. That is a little different than injecting stuff in your veins and seeing what happens. I am not an alarmist when it comes to biohacking but I see a lot of pitfalls and I have yet to see many meaningful successes. Feel free to dispel my ignorance.
@koavf I am surprised he hasn't killed or seriously harmed himself yet.