Over-promised at first, honestly thinking she would eventually deliver.
But then got in so deep and realized half way thru that it would require her to outright lie, that in order for her mind to compensate for such a horrendous thing to do that she actually believed her own lies. Quite fucked up. Like a victim of trauma. She needs help.
This just shows how stupid and ignorant and clueless the mainstream media is.
The story was already the stuff of a hollywood thriller.
When her body is discovered under mysterious circumstances..
Yeah. She's just unfortunate. If the machine eventually works she'll be adored by many just like Steve Jobs. Jobs lied through his teeth too. The NeXT computer didn't work. He faked it. Fortunately it finally worked, so he's suddenly a genius now. It's just a gamble. Jobs won, this woman didn't. They are both liars.
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Next computers worked — they just weren’t cost-effective
Theranos tech NEVER could’ve worked — every biochemical engineer she consulted told her as much
That’s not just “unfortunate” — it’s STOOOOOPID.
The kind of stupid that thinks you can “change the laws of physics” with enough positive thinking and employee abuse
No. The NeXT computer that was displayed on the stage at the expo wasn't working. It was a lie. Period.
Also, Jobs ordered the exit signs of the hall to be covered so they won't distract his presentation (or basically his ego.) Which is a crime. Imagine if there were fire, and people coulnd't find the emergency exits and die just because the exit signs were deemed distracting to his silly little presentation. How unbelievably evil that was!
Jobs was a crook just like this stupid woman. He just has never been caught so he is a hero now. They're both liars.
No one gives a shit about NeXT, that was half a mouse fart in Jobs' career. Wake me up when you find a lie of his that actually matters.
Holmes isn't innocent. She could have admitted she fucked up long before the fat lady sang.
"Holmes is innocent," said no one ever.
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She may not be innocent, but she might get off from criminal liability.
I doubt it, but it's not inconceivable.
Ironically, it could work if her lawyers can sell the jury on the notion that she was too dumb to understand how impossible her goals were to ever achieve. She could get acquitted if the jury thinks that Holmes honestly believed she was on the verge of success.
But it's unquestionably a long shot. Honestly, she was stupid to ever take the case to trial. Federal crimes offer much-reduced sentencing for early guilty pleas (e.g. Felicity Huffman vs. Lori Laughlin)
Good point about "lie of his [Jobs] that actually matters"
The phony NeXT was a lie, but they did produce workable albeit overly expensive machines. My college buddy did his post-grad work with them and I recall being blown away by its capabilities (it could play MUSIC on a player that he could freely drag around the screen without interruption, all on a monitor with grayscale - this was the stuff of science fiction back in 1988).
None of that compares to placing actual fake machines in actual real Walgreens stores serving actual real patients getting actual fake results.
I think the people that got wrong test results needs help. She needs serious jail time.
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