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Beyond stealing piles of money from investors, lying to people about medical treatments. Folks were making serious medical decisions with the results from thei

by x0x0 5y ago

Beyond stealing piles of money from investors, lying to people about medical treatments. Folks were making serious medical decisions with the results from their faked / half-assed tests. We should destroy her life for cavalierly playing around with other people's lives in that manner. Theranos intentionally destroyed the database of test results, but their clear goal was to yolo out medical tests. See eg [1] or [2] [1] https://mondaynote.com/theranos-trouble-a-first-person-account-1690b827539f https://mondaynote.com/theranos-trouble-a-first-person-accou... [2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22687026/theranos-patient-bad-test-miscarriage-pregnancy https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22687026/theranos-patient...

bee_rider 5y ago
She should absolutely be put on trial for playing with people's medical diagnoses. But that's not the crime she's been found guilty of yet, right? Hopefully screwing around with medical tests will have much more serious consequences than stealing money. Hopefully this was just the first step, and having her in jail will prevent her from tampering with the evidence for the more serious crimes. Hopefully we live in a society that values lives more than money...
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > She should absolutely be put on trial for playing with people's medical diagnoses She was, but she was acquitted on those charges.
  - bee_rider 5y ago
    Was she? I saw that she was acquitted of defrauding patients, but surely handing out known bad diagnoses also has some consequences from a 'risking lives' viewpoint, right? Like if you order some bullets from a gun shop, and the guy delivers them by doing a drive-by on your house, surely the only legal problem for the deliveryman can't be "these bullets were a ripoff, the gunpowder is already expended!"
    - dragonwriter 5y ago
      > I saw that she was acquitted of defrauding patients, but surely handing out known bad diagnoses also has some consequences from a 'risking lives' viewpoint, right? The bad diagnostic test in exchange for money is the essence of the fraud she was acquitted of, not some separate harm. I mean, it's not impossible she could face state law claims about it separate from the federal ones, but any federal criminal claims from the same set of actions would be foreclosed now by double jeopardy (besides retrial on the charges that the jury hung on.)

by x0x0 5y ago

bee_rider 5y ago

She should absolutely be put on trial for playing with people's medical diagnoses. But that's not the crime she's been found guilty of yet, right? Hopefully screwing around with medical tests will have much more serious consequences than stealing money. Hopefully this was just the first step, and having her in jail will prevent her from tampering with the evidence for the more serious crimes. Hopefully we live in a society that values lives more than money...

dragonwriter 5y ago
> She should absolutely be put on trial for playing with people's medical diagnoses She was, but she was acquitted on those charges.
- bee_rider 5y ago
  Was she? I saw that she was acquitted of defrauding patients, but surely handing out known bad diagnoses also has some consequences from a 'risking lives' viewpoint, right? Like if you order some bullets from a gun shop, and the guy delivers them by doing a drive-by on your house, surely the only legal problem for the deliveryman can't be "these bullets were a ripoff, the gunpowder is already expended!"
  - dragonwriter 5y ago
    > I saw that she was acquitted of defrauding patients, but surely handing out known bad diagnoses also has some consequences from a 'risking lives' viewpoint, right? The bad diagnostic test in exchange for money is the essence of the fraud she was acquitted of, not some separate harm. I mean, it's not impossible she could face state law claims about it separate from the federal ones, but any federal criminal claims from the same set of actions would be foreclosed now by double jeopardy (besides retrial on the charges that the jury hung on.)