Walgreens settles for
Flawed testing, costly deal
Patients get restitution

#walgreens #theranos #bloodtests #settlement #haiku #poetry

https://www.engadget.com/walgreens-agrees-to-pay-44-million-to-theranos-blood-test-customers-054227666.html

Theranos : l'invention qui pourrait vous sauver la vie ! - DNR 23 #theranos https://youtu.be/fPlGxpG7fUY

... Ou pas ...

Whoa! #MarcTessierLavigne , the President of #Stanford University has resigned after issues of #ScientificMisconduct were identified in several papers he authored on #Alzheimer ‘s disease. 👉 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stanford-president-resigns_n_64b8310de4b08cd259da27be

Stanford was also where #ElizabethHolmes hatched her #Theranos scam, and where #DonaldTheDeplorable ‘s ‘Dr. Death’ during the #CoronavirusPandemic #ScottAtlas is a staff member at the #HooverInstitute. 🤔

#ThreeStrikes

Gizmodo: Elizabeth Holmes' Prison Sentence Was Quietly Reduced by Two Years https://gizmodo.com/elizabeth-holmes-prison-sentence-reduced-by-two-years-1850623839 #unitedstatesvelizabethaholmesetal #federalprisoncampbryan #thewallstreetjournal #disgracedtheranos #elizabethholmes #sunnybalwani #healthfraud #theranos #balwani #ramesh

Gizmodo: For Sale: A Formerly Popular Dark Web Marketplace https://gizmodo.com/genesis-market-for-sale-dark-web-raid-fbi-1850622134 #technologyinternet #computersecurity #businessfinance #elizabethholmes #darknetmarkets #genesismarket #filesharing #hydramarket #cybercrime #theranos #darkweb #darknet #hydra #tor

Elizabeth Holmes connaît son destin proche, la #prison pour 11ans et 3 mois. #theranos
On y attend quelques autres vedettes de chez #BigPharma
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2023/may/30/theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-turns-herself-in-for-11-year-prison-term-video

🧵‍> who point out fatal flaws on the idea, and instead producing "prototypes", computer graphics "visaulizations", and glowing presentations with gigascreens lasers etc. You surely know many examples.

The question is how should we call those investment scams. "Musk schemes" would be more logical, but maybe "Holmes schemes" sounds better?

#Theranos #Musk #Starship #Hyperloop #Fraud #Spinlaunch #WaterSeer

@protecttruth this gives me #theranos vibes. Don't even get me started on neurolink 😱

I think if #theranos were founded today that they'd do just fine. I am imagining an alternate scenario where they somehow claim to do magical "big data" on blood, and instead of claiming to test for real things they just turn it into marketing data to feed into black box algorithms. They go strictly b2b. Instead of saying they do medicine they claim that "blood tech" can be used to understand the market because markets are made by people and people have blood in them. the press reports on this claim as if it is uncontested science.

Then real companies like labcorp pay them to "do nano blood magic" in the hopes that this silicon valley genius dust will rub off on their stock price. As blue chip companies buy in, FOMO spreads and more and more buy in, and eventually the company is making a few million dollars a year, all paid by big companies doing fake work to get tech press buzz and pump their stock. "Blood Tech" becomes a whole thing, with a feeding frenzy of software people claiming to have unique skill sets in "blood hacking" get huge salaries to do things like "manage blood trading strategy" at Goldman Sachs.

Does that sound absurd?

it is.

but this is exactly what is happening with #quantum "computing" right now.

Theranos was just ahead of its time, and was still pretending that silicon valley solves real problems instead of simply building a make believe castle which pumps money around in a circle without doing any real work.

From the article:

'[...] Holmes said that she couldn't even pay her legal bills, adding, "I have to work for the rest of my life to try to pay for it."'

Good god! Let's all clutch our pearls and gasp in unison at the notion that Elizabeth Holmes might have to work for the rest of her life!

https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-holmes-says-she-cant-afford-restitution-2023-6

#ElizabethHolmes #Theranos #bills #restitution #PearlClutching #gasp #unison #work #scammer #convicted #jailed #GoodGod

#ElizabethHolmes’ #Theranos #Corporate #Cult
https://freedomofmind.com/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-corporate-cult-with-dr-dennis-tourish/

Despite Elizabeth Holmes’ Best Efforts, She Is Finally in Prison #2023_05_30 #rolling_stone #larisha_paul #subculture #subculture_news #criminal_justice #elizabeth_holmes #hustle_culture #silicon_valley #theranos

>> https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elizabeth-holmes-prison-serving-sentence-finally-1234744078/

The New York Times’ Elizabeth Holmes Profile Is Causing Drama in the Newsroom: “What the Hell Happened Here?”

As Holmes headed to jail Tuesday, business editor Ellen Pollock was put on the spot to defend a soft-focus profile of the disgraced Theranos founder, telling staff she didn’t “give a fuck” about the criticism.

“And then we serve up a thing like that, and The NY Times becomes known as a softball place for criminal millionaires sucks to see.”

#theranos #holmes

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/elizabeth-holmes-new-york-times

The usual disclaimer: this is promising, but don’t count on great results.

If it works as advertised—if—it could be what #Theranos promised and so spectacularly failed to deliver. #Grail is using well-understood technology and (I think) large enough samples to make the claims for the #Galleri test believable, at least. And the #NHS (again, I think) doesn’t have the kind of incestuous relationships with financially interested parties that helped #Holmes et al. get away with such fraud for so long. So I’m inclined to trust their reporting.

With that said, the usual #statistician’s disclaimer applies: #multiple #testing is hard. So, for that matter, does the #medic’s and the #biologist’s, because there are multiple kinds of multiple testing going on here. The more you test, the more you will screw up.

I almost appended “it’s like a law of nature” to that last sentence above … but no, it is a law of nature. Unreasonable effectiveness of #mathematics something something.

#Cancer screening is important, and steady improvements in the field have already saved untold numbers of lives. I expect this will continue to be the case. So take this with cautious optimism. Pushing back the boundaries a little bit at a time, each small step representing another decade or year or month of life—it’s what we do, every day. I want to believe.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/02/blood-test-50-types-cancer-could-speed-up-patient-diagnosis-study

The usual disclaimer: this is promising, but don’t count on great results.

If it works as advertised—if—it could be what #Theranos promised and so spectacularly failed to deliver. #Grail is using well-understood technology and (I think) large enough samples to make the claims for the #Galleri test believable, at least. And the #NHS (again, I think) doesn’t have the kind of incestuous relationships with financially interested parties that helped #Holmes et al. get away with such fraud for so long. So I’m inclined to trust their reporting.

With that said, the usual #statistician’s disclaimer applies: #multiple #testing is hard. So, for that matter, does the #medic’s and the #biologist’s, because there are multiple kinds of multiple testing going on here. The more you test, the more you will screw up.

I almost appended “it’s like a law of nature” to that last sentence above … but no, it is a law of nature. Unreasonable effectiveness of #mathematics something something.

#cancer screening is important, and steady improvements in the field have already saved untold numbers of lives. I expect this will continue to be the case. So take this with cautious optimism. Pushing back the boundaries a little bit at a time, each small step representing another decade or year or month of life—it’s what we do, every day. I want to believe.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/02/blood-test-50-types-cancer-could-speed-up-patient-diagnosis-study

False promises fail
The Theranos founder jailed
All hope now is lost

#theranos #elizabethholmes #fraud #jail #haiku #poetry

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-reports-prison-defrauding-investors/story?id=99626509

Disgraced Fraudster Elizabeth Holmes reported to prison today to begin her 11 year sentence #Theranos #ElizabethHolmes #Prison

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/05/disgraced-fraudster-elizabeth-holmes?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=75222

@tuzzi #Theranos 欺騙 (?!) #FDA 搞到 Class I 的危險等級 (跟牙刷和聽診器同級)

FDA 在鼓勵創新和保護公眾利益之間的拿捏也是很不容易...

https://theconversation.com/how-theranos-faulty-blood-tests-got-to-market-and-what-that-shows-about-gaps-in-fda-regulation-168050

Elizabeth #Holmes first night in the #bighouse!
Shame it’s Club Fed. Ending segregation would be a fine deterrent.

#ponzischeme #theranos #clubfed #prison #conspiracy #fraud

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/elizabeth-holmes-has-reported-to-prison-in-texas-to-start-her-11-year-sentence/ #theranos #ElizabethHolmes