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Elizabeth Holmes to seek mental disease/insanity

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John B:

--- Quote from: Bud on August 29, 2021, 02:21:13 pm ---Well, another twist in the saga.


--- Quote ---Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of the disgraced blood diagnostics company Theranos, might accuse her ex-boyfriend of mentally and sexually abusing her, thereby clouding her judgement during the time she allegedly committed fraud, according to court documents that were unsealed ahead of her criminal trial.
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-defense-plans

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"Don't stick your soldering iron in crazy."
    - Sun Tzu

coppice:

--- Quote from: Gyro on January 04, 2022, 09:19:31 pm ---It's funny, but over the past few days I've been seeing TV ads in the UK from nu*an.com offering disease diagnosis (not just erectile dysfunction) based on mail in finger prick blood samples.

I don't know whether it's just coincidental timing with the Holmes trial verdict, whether I've developed heightened sensitivity to them, or whether they figure that any publicity is good publicity. >:D

I'm not suggesting that they're doing anything more dodgy than charging people for sending them a few drops of blood. Not something I would have any confidence in though!.

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Are they saying you can buy this service now, or are they being vague. I've seen lots of ads recently for things like this and amazing "molecular diagnostics", which describe futuristic things as if they can be bought today, when they can't. I think they are trying to create a buzz to get investor money to develop these things.

SiliconWizard:
Those things are going to boom in the next few months/years. That's a guarantee. That's the new goldmine. And if one thinks that there won't be maybe half of them not similar to the Holmes' venture... well... =)

Gyro:

--- Quote from: coppice on January 04, 2022, 10:01:04 pm ---Are they saying you can buy this service now, or are they being vague.

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Nope they're offering it now... https://www.numan.com/fear-nothing/fear-nothing-blood-test. It's even free if they don't find anything - what are the odds!  >:D

Edit: To be fair, the disease bit is only implied in the Ads.

There's nothing better for stirring up peoples' fears than calling it a 'fear-nothing' test!

Just_another_Dave:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on January 04, 2022, 05:54:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on January 04, 2022, 05:25:16 pm ---I'm more bothered about the mental state of all the people suckered by such a transparent charlatan. This seems like a classic Emperor's new clothes event.

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That's my point all along, yes. Glad at least one person here sees it the same way.

As to this happening again, unfortunately, I'm almost certain it's going to. And possibly in health-related startups too, especially since those are booming these days.

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Unluckily, many startups nowadays are just scams made by people unable to judge if their product would be implementable, yet it is quite common that they offer a lot of promising results obtained with dubious tests. As most of them usually fail pretty quickly, the harm made is small enough to avoid ending up in the news. I’m quite sure that is only a matter of time to have a similar event

Some years ago a startup promising real time tracking nano-tags without batteries that could send their locations through the 4g network. In order to achieve it, they hired a group of computer scientists to “program” that feature in a SIM card. After several years without results, they decided to hire an electronics engineer to add an antenna to the card (by “programming” it without modifying the hardware), as they realized that they couldn’t send data without it. Obviously I declined the offer, but I laughed really hard while reading their specifications

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