Elizabeth Holmes Isn’t Fooling Anyone
Elizabeth Holmes isn’t fooling anyone. Well, almost anyone.
The convicted fraudster and founder of the defunct medical start-up Theranos, is waiting to begin an 11-year sentence in federal prison. She received this punishment for misleading investors about her lab-in-a-box technology, which she claimed could run hundreds of tests on a few drops of blood. In reality, when Theranos’s Edison device wasn’t exploding, it was delivering unreliable results to frightened patients. Holmes’s fall from grace—she was once the youngest self-made woman billionaire—has been described over and over again. But there’s still a little more blood left in this stone.
On Sunday, ran of Holmes—which included the first interview she’seditor Sam Baker on Twitter. The emergency-medicine physician Jeremy Faust called it “.” Journalists and doctors alike argued that the had erred by helping Holmes rehabilitate her image.
