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by candiodari 1631 days ago
What Elizabeth Holmes tried to do is possible. So we can be a bit kinder than that: she thought with enough help she’d figure it out and make her lies the truth before being found out.

She didn’t of course, but it wasn’t impossible to do. She just wasn’t good enough.

After all most cells in your body do a few thousand blood tests on millilitres of blood every second. Our technology has a long way to go but it can be done.