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I remember at the time so many experts I knew in the field would say the Theranos claims were total BS and what she speaks of was tried and doesn’t work for X,
by JCM9 5y ago
I remember at the time so many experts I knew in the field would say the Theranos claims were total BS and what she speaks of was tried and doesn’t work for X, Y, and Z reason. A science company board full of people without a science background was also a giant red flag. There were very much some she wasn’t fooling, but the broader media-sphere, PR engine, and high profile folks without a technical background bought the whole thing hook, like and sinker.
In that way it was a textbook con. Avoid those that would sniff you out and focus on those that will be gullible to your play.
- diogenes123 5y agoSounds the Iraq War and COVID-19. I wonder which sorts of organizations would orchestrate these...
- easytiger 5y agoAs it happens Holmes did some work on early SARS swab testing at a lab in Singapore when she was at university.
- colechristensen 5y agoThis kind of back seat driving peer review isn’t helpful. “What she claims she can do is bs!” isn’t the story, because you’re really just disagreeing with marketing. The problem is it took far too long for anyone to actually check the real mechanics of what was being done to see if it was faked, someone with almost no access saying it’s fake is not an authority.
- JCM9 5y agoThe point of this whole Theranos thing is that medical product conversations need to be based on science, not marketing. It was the lack of transparency / access that is precisely what caused many scientists to question the claims. That’s generally not how science is done so it sets off the BS detectors. If you’ve made this breakthrough, show us. People got hurt here because of how that played out, and that’s messed up.
- fallingknife 5y agoExperts do tend to say that about things that end up working, though.
- __m 5y agoyeah but not in an established field by a college dropout. The whole pitch was ridiculous. We do all the tests with only one machine and we make the machine a lot smaller, oh and we do it with just a fraction of the blood.