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.
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.
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, hence I only mentioned the machines as being the scam.
I supposed one could say both things were elements of her con, even if only one of those amounted to Fraud.
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.
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.
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.
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, hence I only mentioned the machines as being the scam.
I supposed one could say both things were elements of her con, even if only one of those amounted to Fraud.
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.