We are talking about tens of thousands of patients here whose doctors made medical choices based on fundamentally flawed blood work, all while Holmes and her buddies were boasting about how disruptive their technology was, how much better they were than the oh so misguided competition, and that validation data was coming very very soon. Plain criminal.
Keep in mind, this is almost half a billion dollars of private investment money that just went up in smoke (and countless man hours from employees who thought they were doing the right thing). When you know how hard academic research labs have to work to get even a hundredth of that kind of funding - when they do much more to advance the field - it's just plain infuriating.
But no, Elizabeth Holmes will get a movie about her, and they'll all fail upward in some fashion - won't be surprised to see them on various boards and advisor positions in the years to come.
The rich get richer, while the general population gets fucked over- the apple is rotten to the core.
I take a little comfort in knowing that something this extreme would never happen in more civilized countries (say Japan, Canada, most EU countries, some South American countries, usw.)