Joseph P Farrell – It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about Elizabeth Holmes and her Silicon Valley start-up, Theranos, both of which were one-time darlings of the early morning coffee TV shows. The  story fascinates me because there’s so much weirdness about it. In case you’re unaware of the Holmes-Theranos story, Holmes founded her company to build a device that would test for an entire panoply of diseases, from one small drop of blood, and do analyses and diagnosis from that device. The trick was, she wanted that device to be no bigger than a computer printer, and put them in every home.

Skeptics didn’t get much time on those early morning shows, and Holmes’ company, Theranos, began to get a lot of attention from the military and related defense contractors.

My own personal view when I first read about the story after hearing about it from Catherine Austin Fitts, was that whatever Holmes was doing, it would have to involve optics and a healthy dose – not to coin a pun – of some cutting edge physics.  Eventually, the claims and lack of their fulfillment eventually caught up with Holmes, and she was indicted for fraud. Continue reading →