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Re:Elizabeth Holmes urged employees to hide Theranos’ lab eq... by thehappypm on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @01:56PM (#28697420)
What I'm struggling with is how this is criminal.

Like, there are rapid COVID tests out there. They're marketed as accurate. Yet everyone knows they're not foolproof. If I got a positive rapid test, the first thing I'd do is go get a PCR test.

With these Theranos lab tests, it's honestly (to me) a similar thing. If I'm a startup trying to make a cheap HIV test, and I know it's not perfect, it's wrong sometimes, does that make me a criminal for wanting to get real-world users to use my product? Isn't it more of a regulatory oversight if people are making medical decisions based on new and imperfect tech?

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes urged employees to hide Theranos’ lab eq... by rspeele on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @02:20PM (#28697770)
Depends strongly on how your represent the accuracy of your test to those using it. If you are up front about the level of accuracy it should be fine.

But my limited understanding of this case is that the Edison machine was so inaccurate as to be near useless. So if customers had been informed about how bad it was, they would not have chosen to use it.

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