So if I went to one of the centers and I got a pin prick and I only gave that much blood,

right, what tests are you currently able to perform for that blood using anything other

than commercially available lab equipment?

So we have never used commercially available lab equipment for finger stick based tests.

Every finger stick test that we have ever done uses proprietary Theranos technology that

is not commercially available.

That's a bald faced lie.

Or if I were feeling more generous, I might say an artful and highly misleading parsing

of words.

And again, Elizabeth Holmes has never really given me any reason to be generous.

Elizabeth uttered those words on October 21, 2015 at the Wall Street Journal's Tech

Conference in Laguna Beach, California.

Six days earlier, the journal had published my investigation into her company Theranos.

The story had revealed that the much-hype blood testing startup was pulling the wool over

everyone's eyes.

Because instead of using its own technology, it was secretly using diagnostic machines

made by other companies for most of its blood tests.

My reporting had shattered the company's carefully constructed image.

After receiving an initial tip that things weren't what they seemed at Theranos, I'd

reached out to former employees.

Several had overcome their fears of retaliation and talked to me.

What they described was a company that had exaggerated what its technology could do, cheated

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