TL;DW:
Due to various molecular configurations (aka polymorphs), currently known medicines when contaminated with a catalyst seed molecule/particle can become unstable and irreversibly unreproducible via chained-contaminations.

This system of contamination and reproduction acts in similar fashion to viral infections.

Current Solutions:

  • better clean room procedures for all steps of medicine manufacturing.
  • pour more money into medicine polymorph research.
  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    I can see why people would want to throw their hands up and attribute this effect to satan, sounds infuriating to try to debug this sort of problem without anything to go on

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      2 months ago

      I don’t think the people who are prone to attribute things to Satan have much overlap with the people who work in or adjacent to pharmaceuticles. Also, what do you mean “without anything to go on”, we know exactly what’s going on. That’s why we’re talking about it.

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        2 months ago

        I am talking about the part in the video where they described the history of this effect while the scientific understanding of it was still developing, in particular the bit about how it caused church organs to corrode