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Re:Elizabeth Holmes is on trial for fraud, but don't forget ... by colechristensen on Friday October 22, 2021 @09:46AM (#28957122)
This kind of back seat driving peer review isn’t helpful. “What she claims she can do is bs!” isn’t the story, because you’re really just disagreeing with marketing.

The problem is it took far too long for anyone to actually check the real mechanics of what was being done to see if it was faked, someone with almost no access saying it’s fake is not an authority.

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes is on trial for fraud, but don't forget ... by JCM9 on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:15AM (#28957443)
The point of this whole Theranos thing is that medical product conversations need to be based on science, not marketing. It was the lack of transparency / access that is precisely what caused many scientists to question the claims. That’s generally not how science is done so it sets off the BS detectors. If you’ve made this breakthrough, show us.

People got hurt here because of how that played out, and that’s messed up.

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