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> But I do have to wonder whether the degree of attention from the DOJ has more to do with avenging the reputational and possibly financial losses of those same
by cat199 8y ago
> But I do have to wonder whether the degree of attention from the DOJ has more to do with avenging the reputational and possibly financial losses of those same board members, than garden-variety "the DOJ prosecutes fraud".
Or these two are convenient patsies..
Did they really lose money?
Theranos had huge contracts for blood testing at major national pharmacy chains for a year or two, and if you follow the timeline, there's a ton of related activity requiring well connected people which seems to indicate rushing things out the door to make sure they could get these contracts..
- dralley 8y agoRead the book. The timeline is easily explainable without needing conspiracy theories.
- cat199 8y agoWhat 'book'? AFAIK not nearly all the information has been discovered or presented, and much of this never will. How about the 'convenient' intervention of mattis into military trials of the technology? Just because it sounds like tinfoil hat doesn't mean it's not true (see also: snowden)
- dralley 8y agohttps://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup/dp/152473165X/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1529349440&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=Bad+blood https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup/dp/... One chapter talks about Mattis, including various emails that were sent. He comes across as genuinely wanting to do the best thing for his men and hoping that Theranos could save lives in the field. There never were any field tests, because Mattis listened to his underlings when they said it would need to get FDA approval first. They then offered to let Theranos test random blood samples to validate the results but Theranos never took them up on that offer.