There were plenty of articles claiming similar for her dogshit. Where’s the peer reviewed studies?
Ahead of her time
Submitted 10 months ago by ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net to science_memes@mander.xyz
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halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
cRazi_man@europe.pub 10 months ago
You think news headlines are concerned with shit like evidence?
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Of course not. Just pointing out that it’s probably bullshit just like previous similar claims. The exact thing its making fun of.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 10 months ago
I mean, they really should be. Imagine how much better everything were if news outlets could be hold responsible for spreading lies.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Her thing was supposed to work basically instantly, in a small box without a lab.
ch00f@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Came in here for this.
Being able to do this at all is challenging, but building something the size of a bread machine that can be operated by anyone and maintains sterility on its own is something else.
stray@pawb.social 10 months ago
The article doesn’t seem to be selling any particular technology, but rather sharing information on the fact that the research is currently in progress.
The concept of identifying risk factors via blood sample has always been a good one. I’m not a scientist or medical professional, so I just assume the reason we’re not sequencing everyone’s genome is that it’s not currently a good use of medical resources. I can’t recall the name of this woman or her product, but my recollection is that she was claiming something currently impossible, not theoretically impossible.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 months ago
They don’t name the exact study but this research is related: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52310-9
stray@pawb.social 10 months ago
I think the study they reference is the UK Biobank itself, which is ongoing.
bryndos@fedia.io 10 months ago
I "could" get out of bed and get to work early.
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 10 months ago
"Could" is doing about as much lifting in this article as Atlas lifting the world.
I'm holding my reservations until something actually comes along
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Her con was that her company had machines that could do all the analyzing automatically in seconds, it wasn’t than blood analysis had predictive value for at least some diseases.
I don’t think that even back then anybody disputed that at the very least doing DNA sequencing of the cells found in blood could predict the likelihood of certain diseases for a person, as the concept of some people having a genetic predisposition for certain diseases was already accepted at the time.
The scam was the “magic” machine that could do it fast and cheaply, not the concept that it can be done.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 months ago
Actually the scam was that the machine was able to do it from a pinprick blood sample. The idea was that you would take the blood sample yourself, directly at the pharmacy. No doctor appointment and nurse needed. That’s why the idea was valued at billions.
And she looks funny in this picture so I 100% stand behind this meme.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Let me be more precise: the Defrauding Of Investors for which she was convicted in Court was that her company was getting people’s blood samples and claiming to be analyzing them on their own special machines, whilst in reality they were sending those samples to labs to be analyzed in the traditional way and their machines never worked.
Maybe amongst her various claims she made one as you said (frankly, I don’t remember anymore), but that was not what landed her in jail.
I supposed one could say both things were part of her con.
stray@pawb.social 10 months ago
I think the meme is good either way. I think we’ll eventually have the capability to do such testing simply and quickly, and she’ll still be a loser for having lied about it and scammed people.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Faking it until they_found_out_and_put_your_sorry_ass_in_jail VS Making it.
58008@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Has anyone ever seen Liz Holmes and Mark Zuckerburg in the same room together? 🤔
pigup@lemmy.world 10 months ago
gotdang shapeshifters man
ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What they aren’t saying is that you need a mass spectrometer to be able to analyse the pinprick of blood.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 10 months ago
What is so uncanny about her hair? It’s like a wig, but dry and damaged.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The uncanny, isnt limited to her wig. She looks like a Simpsons character made a wish on a Zoltar machine to be real person.
Nastybutler@lemmy.world 10 months ago
uniqueinsults.com
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Its bleached and straightened. The bellend shape implies it would be curly if she didn’t cook it every morning with a flat iron.
Decq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Probably bleached too much? She always strikes me as uncanny because she comes across as the female Zuckerberg to me.
Dingleberrydipndots@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So… who is she?
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
CEO of Theranos, currently spending time in jail for fraudulently saying they could do this.
Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
They said they could do it. They charged people money to do this, when in fact they could not do this.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos. She was sentenced to prison for defrauding investors. She started making claims that she could do exactly what the headline says. She claimed that current blood panels (which usually require a vial of blood for each test) were insufficient and outdated, and that her company could predict or diagnose a ton of diseases and disorders with only a pinprick of blood. She said that her company was already in the final stages of the research, and used those claims to entice investors. She said that her company was going to be on the forefront of a medical revolution, and investors were clambering to get in before they hit the market.
It turns out she was full of shit, was lying through her teeth, the technology didn’t exist, and they couldn’t diagnose anything with the tiny amount of blood she claimed. Medical professionals had been screaming about the fraud for a long time, but techbros and billionaires were happy to continue jumping on the bandwagon because she kept promising results in the near future. When the fraud finally came to light, Theranos’ valuation went from ~$9B to $0 basically overnight. It was a massive “she stole from billionaires, so we’re making an example of her and actually prosecuting the white collar crime that never gets prosecuted” court case that started way back in the mid 2010’s. It only recently wrapped up a few years ago (I think in late 2022 or early 2023?) and she’s still serving time.
Findus_Falke@feddit.org 10 months ago
No, this is obviously the bald dude from Little Britain. /s
marcos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
She took millions of investment to make a company that sells “do it at home” blood tests. She never could actually do the tests work, but was trying to sell them anyway, and taking more money by telling investors they worked.
OhShitSon@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
and talking more money by telling investors they worked.
So that’s why she’s in jail, because she fucked the investors, not for selling a fraudulent product.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 months ago
The one and only female Steve Jobs of course. Elizabeth Holmes.
TheBat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What’s Fem!Jobs doing these days?
kingofras@lemmy.world 10 months ago
She’s going to be pardoned by the foreign asset dictator and replace RFK jr after his brain worm is finished eating. I think her lawyers put in the pardon request a few weeks ago.
Dojan@pawb.social 10 months ago
Given that her crime is essentially scamming rich people, I don’t think so. Rich people get special treatment after all.
huppakee@piefed.social 10 months ago
Prison time last i heard, but not sure tbh
ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Free labour in a bright orange jumpsuit I believe.
baggins@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Minimum security camp chilling with her hubby
regedit@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
::decaprio_pointing.jpg::
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Can it detect puberty 10 years early too?
gray@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Genetic testing often requires very little blood, other tests may require much more
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 months ago
This research is specifically NOT about genetic testing. It’s about molecular profiles.
stray@pawb.social 10 months ago
Molecular profiling includes genetic testing.
elbiter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can only read it in her funny voice…
falseWhite@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Another scam?
rafoix@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Every scientific article with “could” in it is bullshit.
I could have a twelve in cock in my pants.
regdog@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t shove numbers up your cock.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 10 months ago
I have the square root of negative one up my butt
icelimit@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Tyoed out the number but shortened the units.
piranhaconda@mander.xyz 10 months ago
No no, it’s an in cock, not an out cock. Like the difference between innie and outie belly buttons.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No need to brag that your girlfriend could be wearing your pants
Sidhean@piefed.social 10 months ago
Woah, you got a 12?! I only scored a 4 on my cock exam :(
rafoix@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
It might only be a 4 today but it COULD be a 16 tomorrow. Hallelujah!
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Kind of. More likely if you read the publication it is about something else, but that doesn’t drive clicks. Maybe you have a 12 inch cock in your ass?
rafoix@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I could but I won’t provide proof just like these lying science fiction articles.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Who did you steal it from?