@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
For those doubting that Theranos was debated in public, or that its advocates appealed to the authority of the names behind it, see these (mesmerizing!) HN discussions from 2013 and 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951019
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@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
A defining aspect of the Theranos failure is that everyone deferred to someone else in terms of technical diligence, collectively dismissing as malcontents those technologists who actually HAD dug deep and came away unconvinced. Do you see why I am bringing this up, web3?