their original promise was that: you will be able to plug a jar to a controller, download instructions and it will make medicine for you, no knowledge of chemistry needed. i think it was one talk before this one where they claimed to make an antiviral (still under patent) and gave away some pills of it for free. i don’t think they made it in a way that matters, they didn’t show their pathway, they didn’t show analyses they say they made, they don’t say what they used as a starting material and how they got it, and they didn’t provide anything in way of formulation or other three drugs needed in that treatment (iirc). it might be very well that their costs are even higher per pill than what usual distribution will charge, but they don’t say any of that, and it might be just as possible that if more people did that starting material supply would dry out. (or they might be just lying) worse than that, while they might do some analyses, it’s not included or expected in jar and controller scenario, so there’s no real quality control and if released, this alone can be reasonably expected to kill people. i’m not sure if they even released anything workable in this capacity (they also claim that they made pyrimethamine, but it’s also after nilered made it, so they might just copy his process. it’s simpler thing)

what they’re doing later: there’s this horse medicine that you can use as (more dangerous, less effective) ersatz plan B, or this estradiol thing, it’s much less sketchy because they don’t cook anything, they “just” formulate an API they get from somewhere else, but it’s still a fair bit sketchier than using fish antibiotics in humans because for example massive accidental overdose is still quite likely