In this week’s newsletter: the Theranos founder’s conviction shows healthy scepticism about promises to radically rewrite our future is no bad thing
It’s safe to say that it’s not a happy new year for Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos and – following a guilty verdict on four of 11 charges in a California court this week – a convicted fraudster.
Holmes, you may remember, promised her devices could diagnose a plethora of health problems from a pinprick of your blood, gaining coverage from the media throughout the 2010s. We now know the technology Holmes hawked to investors, the media and the general public was seriously flawed.
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In this week’s newsletter: the Theranos founder’s conviction shows healthy scepticism about promises to radically rewrite our future is no bad thing
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It’s safe to say that it’s not a happy new year for Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos and – following a guilty verdict on four of 11 charges in a California court this week – a convicted fraudster.
Holmes, you may remember, promised her devices could diagnose a plethora of health problems from a pinprick of your blood, gaining coverage from the media throughout the 2010s. We now know the technology Holmes hawked to investors, the media and the general public was seriously flawed. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian