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Yes you are right later on people had more skepticism especially after the FDA piled on. The argument I am making is the initial claims they had about testing a
by specialp 9y ago
Yes you are right later on people had more skepticism especially after the FDA piled on. The argument I am making is the initial claims they had about testing a single drop of blood were pretty outrageous to anyone that even knows a little bit about how this stuff works. Look at some of the downvoted comments they said exactly this! There are things that can be said well we didn't know they were hiding this, and there are things that people should have listened to someone that has even elementary knowledge of how this stuff works. Look how many people dismissed the impossibility of this stuff with remarks on her connections and the might of SV....
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181339
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951019
- dang 9y agoI skimmed those threads and read them pretty differently. Even many of the pro-Theranos comments were careful to say things like "How can I know to trust their numbers?" and "the enormous change her company is saying is possible" (emphasis added). Those seem to me to have aged pretty well, and then there are the many skeptical ones, including from people like you who have direct experience in that field.