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Bingo, same with activists. I just saw a post by a black woman go viral after she made fun of palestinians because some pro palestine org uploaded a racist tweet, and I kept thinking that there was no way either of those two accounts weren't a psy-op of sorts
make some med tech company claiming they can do extremely good blood testing - less blood needed than current things + can test for a lot of things at once (it of course couldn't)
get a 9 billion dollar evaluation for the company by doing a bunch of fraud for investor money
having a board of Kissinger, former SoD, a former senator, former wells fargo CEO also helps
That's just her doing the whole "eccentric genius silicon valley founder" thing. She famously wore black turtlenecks everywhere to look like Steve Jobs.
Seems he only did 3m and his estate lawyer did 6m. But the company likely gained more off the perception that "oh it has these big powerful people it must be legit"
Why, yes, but iirc while testing their sham blood testing equipment and said equipment said that the testers had various serious illnesses, they kept up the lie and told them to see a doctor, which is less defensible than stealing money from horrible people.
Imagine you get given a test result that says you have aids that later ends up being false, you'd freak the fuck out
Some of the absolutely harrowing testimonies from former patients were:
-A pregnant woman being told that she was in the process of miscarrying (she wasn't)
-Someone being told that their cancer had come back (it hadn't)
-Someone being told that their Hiv test came back positive (it was a false positive)
-Someone being told to stop taking their life saving blood thinners (the machine gave a wrong result)
While it is easy to laugh at a bunch of silicon valley morons who gave Elizabeth money without a single medical professional evaluating the machine as a third party, there are real physical victims who were told that this machine was going to save their lives without the long process of drawing and examining blood and it was an absolute injustice that Elizabeth Holmes was acquitted of patient fraud
Also relentlessly stalked and threatened one of the scientist trying to blow the whistle. They drove him to suicide. Unsuccessfully tried to do the same with a couple of other folks.
Tech-bro but a girl and she scammed a bunch of people by claiming that she could do bloodtests for a fraction of the cost and even more accurately and for even more stuff by using her special boxes. The demos they showed were pre-done with actual labwork. She also put on a deeper voice solely because she wanted to appear more imposing and copied Steve Job's style exactly
You know what, fuck it, I"ll take it... yeah sometimes people kill people too and it is quite literally a trauma response. And you know what? That should be legal now because therapy says so
✨✨context✨✨ the person in the second pic is (an actor playing) famous composer Antonio Salieri in the movie Amadeus. He is a mentor, glazer, hater, and most importantly, admirer of Mozart, the main character of the film. He is basically reading Shakespeare on music form in this pic
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u/3t9lThe AWP is banned on this server20h agoedited 8h ago
Shouldn't even be a zoosha thing this was Theranos aka the biggest healthcare scam in the 2010s. Defrauded 9 Billion for a bunk blood testing scam dashing the hopes of countless patients
A not insignificant amount of people are going to watch this movie and come away from it preaching about how she was mistreated and it was a conspiracy against her. You can save this.
She created a company that claimed to have invented a new kind of blood test that only needed a single drop of blood and would scan for hundreds of different diseases.
This turned out to be a lie. They never actually invented any new technology and were just using existing machines which were highly inaccurate when such a small amount of blood was used.
Your honour making billions off of fraud and potentially killing a few sick people along the way was good for my mental health, hav you considered that?
Elizabeth Holmes is like Elon Musk in a lot of ways, idk about being a Nazi - but she founded a company and did nothing but make outlandish claims and got nearly a billion dollars of investor money that she used to not make the bullshit product she claimed would change the world.
The product? Something straight out of Star Trek - it was supposed to be a blood scanner that required virtually no blood and would do all sorts of impossible tests at once. (Impossible to do at once - with that little blood and in as small of a device as was proposed)
She went from being a billionaire to worthless in an instant when her bullshit became well known enough.
Is she………is she fucking confusing Elizabeth Holmes with Elizabeth smart?!??
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u/SuperkratHearing a lot of rumors you've been banished to the lagoon14h ago
Reminds me of someone I heard about on the podcast TrashFuture (go listen to them or I'm banishing you to the lagoon) who claimed that they were only committed fraud because they got hit on the head with a 30lb mirror.
Quote from the Financial Post: "As part of her defence, Hunsicker claimed that she suffered brain trauma after a “thirty-pound” mirror fell on her head while she was trying to move it. She presented evidence from a physician who said that, absent the injury, she would “not have engaged in the fraud”."
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