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I posted about Theranos 2013. Not entirely sure, but I think it was when they launched publicly.

Crazy how my gut feeling was more than vindicated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349

A lot of the comments on that thread are about how the board is full of military/CIA it smells like a cover company. It had Henry Kissinger on it of all people.

Did we ever find out what all those people were doing at Theranos? I really haven’t kept up to date.

One of the unspoken secrets of research is that a lot of people are doing it to keep themselves in a job. It is perfectly possible to do research for years which goes nowhere, just goes over old ground etc. As long as the money rolls in, someone's making a living and not necessarily dishonestly if they're at the lower levels.

I have a theory! They saw all the other security state people involved, and figured this was something it would be a good career move to support without knowing exactly why.

"Don't obey in advance", Tim Snyder said. But obeying in advance is called showing initiative and is a great career move. In secretive industries it can be hard to know what to obey in advance, but they don't let that stop them!

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