ELIZABETH HOLMES: NOT SO MUCH ALICE IN WONDERLAND AS CHESHIRE CAT
Last night, I took in the documentary, You Can See Everything about disgraced Theranos founder, Elizabeth Holmes. She scammed hundreds of millions from wealthy investors, and surrounded herself with a phalanx of the world's most powerful men to lend legitimacy to her lie that her revolutionary blood-testing company could be a functional, financially rewarding enterprise. Her stated intentions were noble: affordable, achingly accurate tests that put the power back into the hands of patients, who could get answers as to their health issues with a simple drop of blood taken from their finger, then analyzed in her magic box. Were this fiction, and not real-life, a good editor would say it relies too much on the motifs of the magician. Holmes shamelessly used these props and her skillset as a mentalist and made those who supported her feel like heroes, coming to the aid of sick people who get cheated by the system that fleeces them. I write as someone who spent a huge...
