THE THERANOS FRAUD
Episode 224 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the Theranos fraud — Elizabeth Holmes, a blood-testing machine called the Edison that never worked, and a $9 billion valuation built on fabricated clinical data, ghostwritten scientific articles, and a board of former Secretaries of State and Defense who never required proof that the technology functioned. Nearly 1 million patient test results were ultimately voided or corrected. Patients received false positive results for HIV and cancer and miscarriage.
We trace the VIGOR trial data manipulation, the FDA's failure to detect…
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