/substanceBreakling reply @therealmissjo /substance 2026-09-07
Original · Miss Jo
This is the actual Elizabeth Holmes. Unbelievably, she founded Theranos at the age of 19 - said that it could produce full blood tests and diagnose serious illnesses from just a pin prick. It was always a lie. The technology never worked. This wasn’t just a story of investor…
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Theranos was not only investors losing money. The tests never worked, and patients got wrong results: miscarriages that had not happened, HIV and cancer diagnoses that were false, heart attacks that were missed. Two years of test records were destroyed, so the true toll is unknown. Her chief biochemist kept telling her the product did not work; he later died by suicide. She got 11.25 years. This film covers her run-up to prison. Tone rewrite only. Claims remain the author's and are not independently verified.