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She knowingly made false and fraudulent claims about what she was doing, how she was doing it. She knowingly gave false medical test results to people causing s
by olliej 3y ago
She knowingly made false and fraudulent claims about what she was doing, how she was doing it. She knowingly gave false medical test results to people causing significant harm (not something that she has been penalized for). She destroyed the lives of anyone who reported negatively about her or theranos.
You can claim all you like that she thought she could do what she claimed that she was doing.
But that doesn't matter.
She knew for a fact that they were not doing what she was claiming, and she knowingly lied about that.
She is a fraudster. She is a criminal. That amount people bend over to support her - and other similar "founders" - is bizarre.
It does not matter if they thought what they was saying was possible, if they know for a fact that that is not what they are doing.
- throwawaymaths 3y agoYou're misreading my tone. Im literally not disputing that she was a fraudster. And I'm not defending Holmes. All scams are frauds, not all frauds are scams. Being a scamster is a form of psychopathy that evinces a knowing willingness to hurt people in the name of self interest. Arguably my claim is scarier. Fraudsters like Holmes are scary because they don't think they are doing anything wrong. The fake it till you make it narrative even gives the perception of a long leash to commit pecadillos on the long road to success, in the context of the "make the world better" narrative of SV. There are more people out there like her, and it's harder to restrain them because they think they are doing something good and to boot they appear (maybe even are, if slightly) less psychopathic at a first glance.