# The trial of Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos)\[sentenced to 11+ yrs, 18Nov2022\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 10, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trial-of-elizabeth-holmes-theranos-sentenced-to-11-yrs-18nov2022/946138 "2021-07-10T04:42:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 699
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trial-of-elizabeth-holmes-theranos-sentenced-to-11-yrs-18nov2022/946138/699 "2023-05-31T01:01:03Z")
> [@Plea Bargaining: Spun off from the Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plea-bargaining-spun-off-from-the-elizabeth-holmes-theranos-discussion/985061/12): > > If you think about it, our hero-worship of the super-rich is much the same today as it was over 100 years ago. Holmes got the adulation, and Elon Musk is still getting it, even though he obviously doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing at Twitter. I don’t remember ever reading anything uniformly complimentary about Musk. But then, I guess I wasn’t reading glossy business magazines. As for 100 years ago, J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller got lots of bad press. Teddy Roosevelt railed against the malefactors of great wealth, although when the economy crashed, he had little choice but to ask Morgan — one of the few real economics experts back then — for help. Andrew Carnegie got good press by giving away almost his whole fortune, but before that, when he was a union-buster, not so much. It wasn’t so easy to know Theratos was a fake. They got FDA approval for a test in July 2015, which was a few months after the first questioning press reports. At first it seemed like the advantages of doing blood tests with lesser quantities of blood were exaggerated, but it was hard to believe that nothing significant had been invented. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trial-of-elizabeth-holmes-theranos-sentenced-to-11-yrs-18nov2022/946138)._