I've been reading Bad Blood. I think everyone in any sort of science-based profession needs to read it: it's the metastasization of confirmation bias and really nothing else.

There's a girl. She's smart but more important she grew up next to a venture capitalist. So as a freshman at Stanford she says "wouldn't it be cool if there were a patch that could simultaneously diagnose and treat every disease known to man? I'd like a patent for that." And then she charmed her next-door neighbor into giving her millions. And then she charmed the post-doc who ran her Freshman biology lab into jumping ship and starting a company with her. And then she charmed a 40-year-old rich fuck with no people skills into being her boyfriend. And then they charmed a bunch of people into working for them. And never once did the people who knew what was going on tell the people who were working on it and before too long, Safeway was paying $75m to remodel half of its stores to hold Theranos clinics

and never once

in the entire five year run

did they ever

have a successful blood test.

Not once.

Not a single one.

Never.