Posted on 10/23/2016 7:05:44 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
IT ALL began with the best, if exceedingly ambitious, of intentions – to develop a machine that by a simple pinprick on a patient’s finger could detect any disease known to man.
But it ended in the most tragic of circumstances, with the firm behind the invention crashing and a British scientist who had devoted himself to the project taking his own life.
Now his widow has spoken out about the treatment he suffered before and after his death at the age of 67, accusing his employers of heartlessness.
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So happy I didn’t get hired there..!
I applied like 3 times, failed 3 times.
It sounds already like, at best, it could be some kind of advisory screening to recommend more traditional testing. I don’t know how this could possibly be marketed as a silver bullet.
Was it really a suicide, or was he dealt with so he wouldn’t be available as a witness?
Paging Dr. Lexus, Dr. Lexus please pick up the white phone.
Thing is, Steve Jobs had a product that worked, THEN marketed it and got the well deserved kudos and fortune. A ton of these idiots these days get hype first, THEN present a product, when it is supposed to be the other way around. This twit created a concept, marketed the concept to investors, got the hype, but didn’t first make sure the entire thing worked in the first place. She got WAY too much press and hype and go figure, ended up having it crash. Ironically, the invention never got off the ground.
Sounds like an idea that was not workable, rather than a breakthough that simply needed development.
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I wonder that too. Holmes comes across as a paranoid psychopath who apparently had lawyers prowling the grounds and didn’t allow groups of employees to gather to talk about anything. It could very well be that he was murdered and his widow intimidated.
She is presently universally viewed as a criminal and fraud (unlike a certain former Secretary of State, who seems to have about half the population still under her spell) and so there isn’t much that the deceased could have done to lessen her reputation.
I wasn’t thinking of reputation. I was thinking of prison terms. Unless, of course, there were adequate donations to the Clinton Foundation coupled with personal negotiations with Bill for a post January pardon.
"On the eve of the meeting on May 16, 2013, and fearing he was about to lose his job, he took an overdose of painkillers. The scientist – who had recently been diagnosed with cancer – died in hospital a week later."
Holmes is going to end up in prison.
I THINK that it could have been a breakthrough that could have been refined and then presented, but apparently she wanted kudos for just existing. She filled the checklist of the image of the Hot Young Silicon Valley Star, but did not have the substance. Regrettable, but that is how it is.
She deserves all the opprobrium that she gets from here on out. The deceased could have provided material for a criminal conviction. That much I know. I wonder when the tell all books will come out, as is the fashion.
It’s news since her company has been exposed as a fraud and now the horrible truths of her company are now spilling out. She’s the hottest topic of an expose since Enron really. I wonder what the made for TV movie will portray her.
I wonder if she (and other execs) subjected their scientists to verbal/emotional abuse and implicit threats. It would be something if in fact she and others ended up being sued for abuse and other civil rights violations.
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