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> "As household staff served them dinner in the formal dining room, the [95 year old] elder Mr. Shultz said Ms. Holmes had told him Theranos’s blood-testing dev
by ethbro 10y ago
> "As household staff served them dinner in the formal dining room, the [95 year old] elder Mr. Shultz said Ms. Holmes had told him Theranos’s blood-testing devices worked so well that they were being used in medevac helicopters and hospital operating rooms, Tyler Shultz recalls. He and his colleague knew that wasn’t true."
I'm absolutely against ageism, but when you're 95... maybe it's not the period in your life where you should be attempting to vouch for groundbreaking biology on the basis of someone else's claims.
- SilasX 10y agoAnd you especially shouldn't be the one making the claims and getting the 95 y/o to vouch for you.
- LordHumungous 10y agoParticularly when you have no background in biology or medicine.
- gozur88 10y agoWas he "vouching" or just relating what she'd told him? I doubt many investors, young or old, have the medical chops to spot falsified data.
- ethbro 10y agoIf I'm trying to convince my grandson not to talk to federal regulators, I'd say that passes the bar of being complicit in the scheme. And absolutely agreed, but at the same time I've heard biotech VC firms gave Theranos a pass. But I guess that speaks more to "If you don't have in house expertise, hire someone to perform your technical/scientific due dilligence."