> But some folks just Won't Let Theranos Go. It comes up again and again and again as some kind of existential moral statement instead of the one-every-few-year

> But some folks just Won't Let Theranos Go. It comes up again and again and again as some kind of existential moral statement instead of the one-every-few-years business scandal that it actually is. And as far as I can tell, the only reason for this is that some of the early investors (that's right, the victims of the crime) were Democrats. What? No... it's because we'd never seen the Silicon Valley Startup Hype Machine ramped up to it's fully glory before like Theranos. Also svelte young blueeyed blondes are catnip to media, combine that with "youngest self made female billionaire" and it's mandatory reporting and guaranteed spotlight in the public eye... throwing the fact that it was all a scam and renewed interest and modern popularity with TrueCrime genre and modern scammers like Anna Delvey and Fyre Festival and .... kaboom, here we are. Didn't hurt that Bad Blood was also excellently written and well-researched. All in all an excellent story.