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The Future of Medicine: What You Need to Know

The Michael Shermer Show

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Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes: How to Minimize Blood Volumes

In light of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, how are you able to do this? Yeah, excellent question. I was pretty much obsessed with Elizabeth Holmes' story. So there's two different paths you can take. One path is that you can try to get conventional clinical lab tests done on large volumes of blood. That's what Theranos tried to do. And they failed, of course, and in fact, were fraudulent all along the way.

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