![]() ![]() Pretty obvious, huh? Well, there’s a reason why other companies weren’t doing this: you can’t do 100 tests on a single drop of blood. Their claim was that they could do blood tests without a needle, just using a drop of blood from your finger.Īnd how did they do this? They took the blood, diluted it, then ran existing blood tests. The “fraudulent” part seems about right, but it seems that they didn’t have any high-tech ideas at all! Before reading Carreyrou’s book, I had the vague idea that Theranos had some high-tech ideas that didn’t work out, and that they’d covered up their failures in a fraudulent way. No matter how bad you think the Theranos story was, you’ll learn that the reality was actually far worse. On the back cover of “Bad Blood” is this quotation from journalist Bethany McLean: Theranos was more fake than I’d realized. ![]() I suppose it’s the mark of any compelling story that it will bring to mind other things you’ve been thinking about, and in this case I saw many connections between the story of Theranos-a company that raised billions of dollars based on fake lab tests-and various examples of junk science that we’ve been discussing for the past ten years or so.īefore going on, let me emphasize three things:ġ. I just read the above-titled John Carreyrou book, and it’s as excellent as everyone says it is. ![]()
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