Ten Years On, Elizabeth Holmes Is Still Pitching 'Chemistries' — and Getting Away With It
mickeyxfriedman · x · 2026-10-18
Commenting on Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans still pitching "technology that can produce chemistries" a decade after Theranos, the author dissects Holmes's communication pattern: genuinely vague speakers pay a cost for their ambiguity, but Holmes's vagueness always kept her in the light — an asymmetry that signals deliberateness. Her sentences were "technically true but arranged to mislead," letting her believe she never lied. She also frames Holmes's relationship with a controlling partner as symbiotic, offloading accountability in exchange for cover.
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