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Here's a story about media manipulation from a reporter who Theranos tried to sell on the story: https://khn.org/news/reporters-notebook-the-tale-of-theranos-an

Here's a story about media manipulation from a reporter who Theranos tried to sell on the story: https://khn.org/news/reporters-notebook-the-tale-of-theranos-and-the-mysterious-fire-alarm/ https://khn.org/news/reporters-notebook-the-tale-of-theranos... I don't want to go full Elon "the media is incentivized to penalize me in particular" Musk, but the ethical thing this reporter did was to was cancel the Theranos feature. A less scrupulous reporter might have been happy to run with it.

wodenokoto 8y ago
If they can prick a reporter, why not prick a patient and have them come back for a later follow-up where they do the real test. That way the reporter and theranos both get their soundbite. I mean, it's not worse than setting off a fire alarm and cancel every body's blood test.