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A comment on Stealth Research and Theranos: Reflections and Update 1 Year Later.

Re:Stealth Research and Theranos: Reflections and Update 1 ... by danso on Friday May 20, 2016 @11:06PM (#11743002)
I would love to hear more of the reasoning as to why Theranos thought Dr. Ionnadis, famous for being hugely skeptical of medical research claims [0], would be someone to reach out to (assuming they weren't intending to just buy him out). There are plenty of other medical experts who would have cooperated with Theranos (given its pedigree) before the WSJ investigation.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/?report=...

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Re:Stealth Research and Theranos: Reflections and Update 1 ... by w1ntermute on Friday May 20, 2016 @11:12PM (#11743014)
Holmes probably (delusionally) believed she could convince Ioannidis to recant his comments in the February 2015 JAMA article regarding "the rationale for promoting massive diagnostic testing," and maybe even the criticism of stealth research, by demonstrating how ground-breaking their technology was, and that the IP needed to be "protected."

At its time of publication, that article was (I believe) the only one in the scientific literature that said anything about Theranos, and the company seemed to be pretty disconnected from the mainstream biotech research community. Holmes was probably only vaguely aware of Ioannidis' background.

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