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I wonder if Holmes was male if she would be treated like Martin Shkreli and attacked in every horrible way possible. Don’t see much rhetoric against her.
by oculusthrift 9y ago
I wonder if Holmes was male if she would be treated like Martin Shkreli and attacked in every horrible way possible. Don’t see much rhetoric against her.
- hammock 9y agoYou must be new to Hacker News.
- whafro 9y agoTheranos was a punch line in my office just this morning, and she'll forever be associated with that. But Shkreli has brought on himself another order of magnitude of personal criticism because of his statements and actions beyond the price fixing. In my experience from the days after his sentencing, people who know nothing about tech or healthcare know his name and react to it with scorn, while quite few of them know the name of his funds or companies.
- fhood 9y agoHoo boy, you are right, the world sure is hard for us white males. Discrimination lurks around every corner. I can't believe nobody realizes that ol Martin wasn't punished because he made a public ass of himself and openly mocked the justice department. It was because he was a white male.
- danso 9y agoMaybe it's because you weren't paying attention to it at the time. Or wasn't* reading HN when the investigations were coming out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12053721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12053721 Less than a year later, before punishments really started to be officially levied against her and Theranos, a movie project with Jennifer Lawrence drew a frenzy of bidding. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/06/jennifer-lawrence-theranos-elizabeth-holmes https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/06/jennifer-lawren... edit: added "wasn't"