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The Return of Silicon Valley’s Greatest Fraud

2025-05-29 Science & Technology
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Go to https://brilliant.org/coldfusion to get started on your STEM learning journey. Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes promised the world. The end result was lies, fraud and Silicon Valley's greatest disaster. But now she's back, kind of. Let's take a look. Watch or listen to ColdFusion on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1YEwCKoRz8fEDqheXB6UJ1 Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gzOl04JdsAwL-eMOGjkCcwDUApfnOTbZmt-y1kSaU5A/edit?tab=t.0 ColdFusion Music: https://www.youtube.com/@ColdFusionmusic http://burnwater.bandcamp.com Get my book: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook ColdFusion Socials: https://discord.gg/coldfusion https://facebook.com/ColdFusionTV https://twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV https://instagram.com/coldfusiontv Created by: Dagogo Altraide Producers: Tawsif Akkas, Dagogo Altraide

Top Comments (10)

@stormixgaming8389 2025-05-29

I think if she makes her voice even deeper this time, it'll work for sure

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@Freedoms_Glory 2025-05-30

We got Elizabeth Holmes again before GTA6

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@ajames283 2025-05-29

This is what happens when society tells you "fake it until you make it" and "just be confident bro"

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@damiansobik229 2025-05-30

First, they think you're crazy. Then, they fight you. Then, they indict you. Then, they find you guilty. Then, you go down in history as a disgrace.

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@blurglide 2025-05-30

She didn't have an invention. She had an idea. I can say "we should build a time machine"....that's an idea....but if I have no idea how to do it, it's pointless.

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@joesaiditstrue 2025-05-29

You know what they say: Once a psychopath, always a psychopath

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@TraTranc 2025-05-29

_"What if it legitimately works this time?"_ Spoiler: it doesn't.

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@bogatyr2473 2025-06-18

You got to admire the balls it takes to run the same scam twice

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@FirstMetalHamster 2025-05-30

I truly despise the media agencies hyping her up like that.

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@EchoGillette 2025-06-18

In 2018 an algorithm was set up to learn the difference between benign skin spots and skin cancer. The AI seemed very accurate, until the researchers realized that if you put a ruler in the photo it would instantly flag it as cancer. Because photos of skin cancer would often have rulers for researcher purposes, the algorithm noticed the patern and reinforced it. There's an argument to be made for keeping Algorithms and AI out of healthcare until we can GUARANTE they aren't reinforcing broken human systems. What if people with certain skintones were only able to see a doctor when symptoms where severe? The machine could conclude those skintones are more cancerous and skew individual results. Just because it seems accurate, doesn't mean it is.

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