The Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes PART TWO

Let's get into it, shall we? So Adam, he is a pathologist in Missouri who spent his spare time

writing a blog about pathology.

These episodes contain so many niche nerds.

We love a niche nerd.

Love, love, love, love.

And so to Adam...

Theranos' technology sounded way too good to be true.

There was no peer-reviewed data to their testing.

Elizabeth had told The New Yorker about a paper that she had co-authored.

But when Adam looked up that journal, he discovered that it was an online-only publication that you would have to pay to be featured in.

We didn't even mention it in the previous episode, but a big part of this as well is how creative Elizabeth got, even when she was selling to Walgreens.

at not letting anyone into her lab.

No one could come in.

No one could see it.

She'd have all these reasons and excuses for why people couldn't ever tour the lab, right? So I don't know, that just really fits into this for me.

Yeah, absolutely.

So Adam did what any good writer would do, and he wrote a blog post about it.

And that blog post got the attention of three very important people.

Richard Fuss, Phyllis Gardner and

Rochelle Gibbons.

Okay, there are going to be quite a few names in this episode because there's a number of people who were all kind of working separately and together at times to expose Elizabeth Holmes.

Yeah.

But bear with us, we're going to walk you through it.