<story><title>Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/blood-testing-firm-theranos-to-dissolve-1536115130</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>Highly enjoyed &lt;i&gt;Bad Blood&lt;/i&gt; and recommend it to anyone interested in some fine investigative journalism.&lt;p&gt;I think the most disappointing thing about this whole saga is that (in theory) the Theranos technology was supposed to be a major healthcare game changer. It could have revolutionized testing, and would surely have saved countless lives.&lt;p&gt;But instead... here we are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erentz</author><text>&amp;gt; think the most disappointing thing about this whole saga is that (in theory) the Theranos technology was supposed to be a major healthcare game changer. It could have revolutionized testing, and would surely have saved countless lives.&lt;p&gt;This reads like such a weird statement. It never existed. It could’ve never have revolutionized testing because it was entirely imagined and not based on reality.&lt;p&gt;It’s like watching Star Trek thinking tricorders are real then being disappointed when told they’re a fiction.</text></comment>
<story><title>Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/blood-testing-firm-theranos-to-dissolve-1536115130</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>Highly enjoyed &lt;i&gt;Bad Blood&lt;/i&gt; and recommend it to anyone interested in some fine investigative journalism.&lt;p&gt;I think the most disappointing thing about this whole saga is that (in theory) the Theranos technology was supposed to be a major healthcare game changer. It could have revolutionized testing, and would surely have saved countless lives.&lt;p&gt;But instead... here we are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kranner</author><text>Correct me if I&amp;#x27;m wrong, but wasn&amp;#x27;t the thesis of Bad Blood just that Theranos simply had no groundbreaking new technology? (and of course that Holmes and Balwani lied and bullied their way into an insane valuation for blood-testing tech that didn&amp;#x27;t exist and was propped up by third-party commercial testing machines)</text></comment>