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    1. John Carmack‏Verified account @ID_AA_Carmack 28 Jan 2019
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      Reading "Bad Blood", I can't help but think that no matter how much of a trash fire Theranos may have been as a company, if they had actually developed a working technology to do rapid and reliable assays on a drop of blood, it still would have been a great thing.

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    2. Albin  🇸🇪 🇧🇷 🇩🇰‏ @albinstigo 28 Jan 2019
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      But they didn't... But someone else will, and it will be awesome.

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    3. sep332‏ @sep332 28 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @albinstigo @ID_AA_Carmack

      It's impossible because proteins and stuff that you'd like to check in someone's blood are not perfectly evenly distributed. You need a larger sample to make sure you're not looking at a statistical fluke.

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    4. John Carmack‏Verified account @ID_AA_Carmack 28 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @sep332 @albinstigo

      Not my field, but statistical distribution wasn't the impression that I got of where the challenges were (I haven't finished the book). A drop of blood is still a whole lot of cells. Do you have a link to a relevant discussion?

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    5. Albin  🇸🇪 🇧🇷 🇩🇰‏ @albinstigo 28 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @ID_AA_Carmack @sep332

      It's kind of my field and I've never heard this reason mentioned. A drop of blood is enormous at the molecular scale and even cellular. A cubic mm of blood contains around 5 million red blood cells.

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    6. John Misczak‏ @johnmisczak 28 Jan 2019
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      My understanding from the book is that the amount of blood they were pulling was not enough volume to run all of the tests they claimed they could, so they were trying to dilute the samples which skewed results even more

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    7. John Carmack‏Verified account @ID_AA_Carmack 28 Jan 2019
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      Replying to @johnmisczak @albinstigo @sep332

      Yeah, but all of that reads as "solvable tech problem", rather than "fundamental science problem" to me. The next company that actually makes progress there is going to face some challenges post-Theranos.

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      Norman Yarvin‏ @NYarvin 28 Jan 2019
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      The idea of minimizing the amount of blood drawn never made sense to me, especially not the idea of taking it from the fingertip -- lots of pain sensors there, and inconvenient to bandage. We humans have a lot of blood; loss of blood from blood draws is very seldom a problem.

      4:03 PM - 28 Jan 2019
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        2. Albert‏ @albertiealik 28 Jan 2019
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          Replying to @NYarvin @ID_AA_Carmack and

          And I comment all of you that #Theranos is a perfect example of how media works in US. Sad but true. From @Forbes to @WIRED to etc.,

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        3. QuantumQuench‏ @Quantum_Quench 30 Jan 2019
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          This guy was lying too & the MSM knew it within 24 hours!! They all 'conspired' to help Siemens & the College Board cover it up (and to avoid embarrassing academic judges from prestigious universities)! Was just #plagiarism & FRAUD! https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=319677&page=1 …http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6666008/ns/us_news-environment/t/energy-invention-nets-scholarship-teen/ …

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