Most often those whom experts call cranks are, in fact, cranks or con artists. Holmes was far more the latter than the former. The problem with her was not that she was wrong, but that she was a fraud. Whether that was true in the beginning I don't know. It was true in the end.https://twitter.com/johntamny/status/1183571943733288962 …
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"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan
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Basically, for every Galileo shown the instruments of torture for advocating a scientific truth that radically challenges the scientific consensus of the time, there are thousands upon thousands of cranks and con artists who are nothing more than cranks and con artists.
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No, Elizabeth Holmes is not one of those rare "visionaries" who will some day ultimately be vindicated.
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