This isn't an industry where "disruption" is harmless, moving fast and breaking things in the endless pursuit of personal fortune is going to cost many innocent people years of their lives.
Because there is no one single class of people, you can't just prescribe on the basis of a self administered blood test.
Take liver function test, depending on what you are looking for, and when you've last eat, you can "prove" you have the beginnings of cirrhosis. Without controlled testing people will be lead to the wrong conclusions.
Also, what is the half life of the compounds you are testing for? how long can they be in a vile before they start to distort?
This is an actual science, and needs to be treated with some respect for the scientific process (evidence leads, actions follow.)
You can draw blood during a migraine, the vein constriction is in the brain, not the rest of the body, otherwise there would be a trivially simple test for migraines vs headaches.
I could go on. The point is this: theranos is basically a symptom of the wrong type of progress. snake oil dressed as science in the pursuit of personal profit. No science was shared, humanities knowledge was not expanded despite the huge amount of money waisted on something that was clearly bollocks
This isn't an industry where "disruption" is harmless, moving fast and breaking things in the endless pursuit of personal fortune is going to cost many innocent people years of their lives.
Because there is no one single class of people, you can't just prescribe on the basis of a self administered blood test.
Take liver function test, depending on what you are looking for, and when you've last eat, you can "prove" you have the beginnings of cirrhosis. Without controlled testing people will be lead to the wrong conclusions.
Also, what is the half life of the compounds you are testing for? how long can they be in a vile before they start to distort?
This is an actual science, and needs to be treated with some respect for the scientific process (evidence leads, actions follow.)
You can draw blood during a migraine, the vein constriction is in the brain, not the rest of the body, otherwise there would be a trivially simple test for migraines vs headaches.
I could go on. The point is this: theranos is basically a symptom of the wrong type of progress. snake oil dressed as science in the pursuit of personal profit. No science was shared, humanities knowledge was not expanded despite the huge amount of money waisted on something that was clearly bollocks