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Her story arc is much like Bernie Madoff's. He, too, only really hurt wealthy investors. But did anyone feel bad for him?

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Only hurt wealthy investors? What about people who received incorrect testing results, like the woman who was given a false-positive HIV result and the woman who was incorrectly told that she was miscarrying?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/theranos-results... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/theranos-gave-wo...

They certainly got a scare, but it's hard to see that they were harmed.

Generally, when one gets a scary result from a test, another test is done to confirm.

The false negatives would have been a better example.

True. But when I've gotten negative test results, I'm well aware that they aren't a guarantee of anything.

I felt bad for his family.

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