Theranos’ Holmes May Pursue ‘Mental Disease’ in Her Defense
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#2Holmes claims to have confirmed her diagnosis with an Edison machine and a microscopic sampling of blood.
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#3I was thinking of Theranos a few weeks ago. And what role they would’ve played in the pandemic had they not been outed.
They likely would’ve released a fake test and gotten a lot of people killed.
Hope she gets her appropriate punishment.
I almost applied for a job there and was willing to move my family to the Bay Area to work on something that meaningful. So glad I dodged the bullet.
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#4I was thinking of Theranos a few weeks ago. And what role they would’ve played in the pandemic had they not been outed. They likely would’ve released a fake test and gotten a lot of people killed. Hope she gets her appropriate punishment. I almost applied for a job there and was willing to move my family to the Bay Area to work on something that meaningful. So glad I dodged the bullet.
I was working on a blood test startup when Theranos imploded. We spoke with a number of their top people about working with us. The truth was that while some of the Theranos team had valuable skills/connections (e.g. getting the devices deployed into retail), the entire saga had tainted their reputations and made it so difficult to raise capital for a legit device (we did two tests while Theranos claimed to do over 200 tests) to the point we couldn’t engage with any of them.
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#5What would the concrete mental illness be?
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#6What would the concrete mental illness be?
Affluenza?
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#7What would the concrete mental illness be?
Quite possibly some sort of personality disorder, e.g. Narcissistic or Antisocial PD. Most ordinary people are unaware of just how devious and manipulative these types can be.
It's like two people in one person, a Jekyll and Hyde personality. A public face of kindness and generosity. And ruthless controlling behavior and manipulation in private, often this behavior is compulsive.
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#9I was thinking of Theranos a few weeks ago. And what role they would’ve played in the pandemic had they not been outed. They likely would’ve released a fake test and gotten a lot of people killed. Hope she gets her appropriate punishment. I almost applied for a job there and was willing to move my family to the Bay Area to work on something that meaningful. So glad I dodged the bullet.
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#10They must be running low on good defensive options. As a non-expert, it kind of looks like the only mental disease she could possibly claim would be some variant of sociopathy, and I don’t think sociopaths get to use their disease as an excuse during criminal trials.