The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press

Re:The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press by jrochkind1 on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:44PM (#11617747)

This is some incredibly bizarre reasoning from the T editor:

> it was my mistake in not asking her if there were any potential conflicts. This was an oversight on my part. I say this not as an excuse, but she is, separately from her husband, a billionaire (making her through marriage a billionaire twice over) and for that reason I think I failed to consider any monetary conflict in her case.

She assumes that rich people have no 'monetary conflict' [of interest]? What?

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Re:The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press by untog on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @12:07AM (#11617842)

I think what they are saying is that she is independently wealthy - as such they didn't check into her husband in the same way they would have if she depended on him for money.

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Re:The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press by simula67 on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @02:51AM (#11618477)

I take it that you are not claiming it is not wrong ?

Regardless of whether she depends on her husband for money, or if she was independently rich, there can still be conflict of interest.

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Re:The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Is the Tech Press by untog on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @09:57AM (#11620667)

I'm not claiming anything. It's obviously wrong, and the editor admits as such - I was just paraphrasing their reasoning behind the mistake.

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