Its a little like mafia bosses going to jail for tax evasion. That's what the prosecutor can get them for even if their real crimes are murder, racketeering, etc. The key is to get these people off the streets by any means necessary. If anyone thinks who only victims are rich investors, then you haven't been paying attention. |
What’s scary is that if she hadn’t gotten in trouble she’d still be shilling her faulty tests and allowing people to experience real world health effects so that she can pretend to be Steve Jobs. 12 years in jail is also 12 years of her being unable to scam and hurt people. Part of why we send people to jail is to protect the general population. |
+1 she could have really hurt a lot of people. It took a well connected scion risking the wrath of his grandfather to expose her. Between her and the other pedophile heiress you can see how people keep making excuses for white women. |
Agree! |
| I just want to know how much the nytimes was bribed to write this drivel. |
She stole from people who bought those tests. Whether she was convicted or not referring to this as a property crime is disingenuous. Stop trying to make the heinous things she did all about rich people being upset. What you are doing is dishonest and manipulative. |
The whistleblower didn't just risk the wrath of his grandfather. People were afraid for their lives. She is evil. That poster who is trying to push the narrative that she was some manipulated naif must be getting paid to do so. |
Author is really dumb to still have this issue after a criminal conviction. You can tell she’s dumb by the way she writes too. |
this is all of the NYT now and has been for some time. Total garbage. |
x1000000 Imagine if she was not caught before covid - the claims she would have tried to attempt! |
Imagine if the CDC or NIH bought those claims. The amount of ammunition the anti-vax/anti-science crowd would have gotten would have derailed public health for a generation |
but but but how unfair, sniff sniff, she's being separated from her precious baaaaabies. It's so unfaaaair. It was just a property crime that only affect really bad old white dudes. She didn't really do anything wrong. We're just a bunch of misogynistic meanies who don't see what an innocent rube she was in all of this. Didn't a poster upthread say were were psychos for not being more concerned about her baaaaaabies and that the real injustice in all of this is that she is being separated from them? |
Well, I’m a psychologist and you have not examined her so it’s pretty unethical to make claims like that - but you be you. |
Well you can relax about that. No one who actually invests in the biotech/health care space bought into this from the beginning. Look who was on her board - old white men involved in government and defense. No one from biotech. All biotech investors took a pass. Not sure how Walgreens got duped but the way they depicted it in the Dropout was pretty amusing. |
She managed to sell her product to lots of place run by old white men: "In 2012 Safeway invested $350 million into retrofitting 800 locations with clinics that would offer in-store blood tests. After many missed deadlines and questionable results from a trial clinic at Safeway's corporate offices, the deal was terminated in 2015.[16] In 2013, Theranos partnered with Walgreens to offer in-store blood tests at more than 40 locations.[17] Although Theranos blood tests were reportedly used on drug trial patients for GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer, both companies stated that there were no active projects with Theranos in October 2015.[18][19] In June 2016, Walgreens terminated its partnership with Theranos. In November 2016 it filed suit against Theranos in federal court in Delaware for breach of contract. In June 2017, Theranos reported to investors that the suit, which originally sought $140 million in damages, was settled for less than $30 million.[20][21] In March 2015 the Cleveland Clinic announced a partnership with Theranos to test its technology and decrease the cost of lab tests.[22][23] In July 2015, Theranos became the lab-work provider for Pennsylvania insurers AmeriHealth Caritas and Capital Blue Cross.[24][25] In July 2015 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the company's fingerstick blood testing device for the herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) outside a clinical laboratory setting.[26][27] Theranos was named the 2015 Bioscience Company of the Year by the Arizona BioIndustry Association (AzBio).[28]" |