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People were skeptical of Theranos' claims before the WSJ expose from Oct 15, 2015. Here are some examples that predate that article: http://www.businessinside

by bagels 8y ago

People were skeptical of Theranos' claims before the WSJ expose from Oct 15, 2015. Here are some examples that predate that article: http://www.businessinsider.com/scientist-skeptical-thranos-blood-test-elizabeth-holmes-2015-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/scientist-skeptical-thranos-b... http://www.businessinsider.com/science-of-elizabeth-holmes-theranos-2015-4#ixzz3YO784nGj http://www.businessinsider.com/science-of-elizabeth-holmes-t... This discussion from 2013 talks about Theranos doing full blood draws which they wouldn't need to do if their technology worked: https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/theranos.1043576/ https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/theranos.1043576/

danso 8y ago
I brought this up in a comment downstream, but it was a Dec. 17, 2014, blog post by the now defunct Pathology Blawg that arguably led to the downfall of Theranos. The Blawg author was contacted by someone feuding with Holmes at the time. The Blawg author eventually contacted the WSJ reporter in secret: http://archive.is/BGtRJ http://archive.is/BGtRJ One of the compelling things the Blawg author did was note this passage in the New Yorker story [0] > Holmes also pointed me to a pilot study published by Hematology Reports, an online-only peer-reviewed journal; she is listed as a co-author. The report, released in April, concluded that Theranos tests “correlated highly with values obtained” from standard lab tests. He looked up that journal, which he had never heard of before, and found that it was an Italian company that charged $500 to publish. He found the Theranos study [1], which actually did contain specific scientific detail, but not the good kind: > So, to summarize, the study to which Ms. Holmes referred that showed Theranos “correlated highly” with standard lab tests looked at one biomarker (C-reactive protein) in a grand total of six patients and was published in an online-only Italian journal. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler [1] http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/hr/article/view/5466/4419 http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/hr/article/view/...
- Brakenshire 8y ago
  Ouch, the quote from Elizabeth Holmes on how the machine worked: > "A chemistry is performed so that a chemical reaction occurs and generates a signal from the chemical interaction with the sample, which is translated into a result, which is then reviewed by certified laboratory personnel."
  - tzahola 8y ago
    Reads like basic.wikipedia.org
    - tzahola 8y ago
      Errata: simple.wikipedia.org
  - itronitron 8y ago
    I guess this is an example of communicating 'up'
  - chris_wot 8y ago
    "A chemistry" doesn't even make grammatical sense.
- bscphil 8y ago
  OT: I'm getting a SERVFAIL response on archive.is from Cloudflare's DNS (1.1.1.1). Weird. Not the first time I've had problems with Cloudflare though.

by bagels 8y ago

danso 8y ago

I brought this up in a comment downstream, but it was a Dec. 17, 2014, blog post by the now defunct Pathology Blawg that arguably led to the downfall of Theranos. The Blawg author was contacted by someone feuding with Holmes at the time. The Blawg author eventually contacted the WSJ reporter in secret: http://archive.is/BGtRJ http://archive.is/BGtRJ One of the compelling things the Blawg author did was note this passage in the New Yorker story [0] > Holmes also pointed me to a pilot study published by Hematology Reports, an online-only peer-reviewed journal; she is listed as a co-author. The report, released in April, concluded that Theranos tests “correlated highly with values obtained” from standard lab tests. He looked up that journal, which he had never heard of before, and found that it was an Italian company that charged $500 to publish. He found the Theranos study [1], which actually did contain specific scientific detail, but not the good kind: > So, to summarize, the study to which Ms. Holmes referred that showed Theranos “correlated highly” with standard lab tests looked at one biomarker (C-reactive protein) in a grand total of six patients and was published in an online-only Italian journal. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler [1] http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/hr/article/view/5466/4419 http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/hr/article/view/...

Brakenshire 8y ago
Ouch, the quote from Elizabeth Holmes on how the machine worked: > "A chemistry is performed so that a chemical reaction occurs and generates a signal from the chemical interaction with the sample, which is translated into a result, which is then reviewed by certified laboratory personnel."
- tzahola 8y ago
  Reads like basic.wikipedia.org
  - tzahola 8y ago
    Errata: simple.wikipedia.org
- itronitron 8y ago
  I guess this is an example of communicating 'up'
- chris_wot 8y ago
  "A chemistry" doesn't even make grammatical sense.
bscphil 8y ago
OT: I'm getting a SERVFAIL response on archive.is from Cloudflare's DNS (1.1.1.1). Weird. Not the first time I've had problems with Cloudflare though.