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Re:Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books by tptacek on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:54PM (#19118565)
How is blood lab technology not a technically complex subject? Are you saying Carreyrou had direct expertise with it, or that _Bad Blood_ is an untrustworthy account?
Re:Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books by davidivadavid on Friday February 08, 2019 @04:08PM (#19118687)
Does Bad Blood cover the tech aspects of Theranos? My impression was that it was more about the psychological and legal stuff.

Edit: ... which obviously doesn't make the book any less interesting.

Re:Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books by tptacek on Friday February 08, 2019 @04:17PM (#19118771)
It does indeed. The question you are asking leads me to believe you haven't read it. As a favor to the thread I will make this plain: drop everything else you're reading long-form and buy a copy of _Bad Blood_; it is fantastic. I didn't give a shit about Theranos. Until I got a couple pages into Carreyrou's book, that is.
Re:Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books by davidivadavid on Friday February 08, 2019 @06:14PM (#19119557)
Haven't read it. It's been sitting on a pile somewhere. Time to reprioritize!
Re:Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books by x0x0 on Friday February 08, 2019 @05:18PM (#19119213)
There is at least one "holy shit" moment in every single chapter in that book.