Bad Blood

(Axel Boer) #1

Time magazine: Time, “The 100 Most Influential People,” April 16, 2015.


President Obama appointed her: Theranos, “Elizabeth Holmes on Joining the
Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE) Initiative,”
press release, May 11, 2015, Theranos website.


Elizabeth also had a personal chef: Ken Auletta, “Blood, Simpler,” New Yorker,
December 15, 2014.


In September 2014, three months after: Holmes’s TEDMED speech can be viewed
on YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZTfgXYjj-A [inactive].



  1. THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH


He did send them one of his email exchanges: Email with the subject line “Re: The
Employment Law Group: Consultation Information” sent to DeWayne Scott at
9:18 p.m. EST on October 29, 2014.


Phyllis and her husband: Phyllis Gardner is listed as a scientific and strategic
adviser in the confidential Theranos Inc. summary dated December 2004 that
Holmes used to pitch investors during the company’s Series A funding round.


That would change when: Ken Auletta, “Blood, Simpler,” New Yorker, December
15, 2014.


Among the arguments she marshaled: Steven M. Chan, John Chadwick, Daniel L.
Young, Elizabeth Holmes, and Jason Gotlib, “Intensive Serial Biomarker
Profiling for the Prediction of Neutropenic Fever in Patients with Hematologic
Malignancies Undergoing Chemotherapy: A Pilot Study,” Hematology
Reports 6 (2014): 5466.


In a post on his blog: Clapper’s blog post can be viewed by entering
“PathologyBlawg.com” into the Wayback Machine.



  1. THE TIP


He’d patiently explained to me: John Carreyrou and Janet Adamy, “How Medicare
‘Self-Referral’ Thrives on Loophole,” Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2014.


“A chemistry is performed so that”: Ken Auletta, “Blood, Simpler,” New Yorker,
December 15, 2014.


Sure, Mark Zuckerberg had learned: Jose Antonio Vargas, “The Face of Facebook,”
New Yorker, September 20, 2010.


There was a reason many Nobel laureates: “Average Age for Nobel Laureates in
Physiology or Medicine,” Nobelprize.org.

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