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Theranos scandal: Who is Elizabeth Holmes and why was she on trial?


She was "the world's youngest self-made female billionaire", trumpeted Forbes magazine. The "next Steve Jobs", said Inc, another business magazine that put her on the cover.


In 2014, Elizabeth Holmes, then 30 years old, was on top of the world. As a Stanford University drop-out, she had founded a company valued at $9bn for supposedly bringing about a revolution in diagnosing disease.


With a few drops of blood, Theranos promised that its Edison test could detect conditions such as cancer and diabetes quickly without the hassle of needles. Bigwigs from Henry Kissinger to general James Mattis sat on the board.


But by 2015, the seams were coming apart, and within a year, Holmes was exposed as a fake. The technology she touted didn't work at all, and by 2018 the company she founded had collapsed.

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n. 丑闻,中伤,反感,耻辱

 
revolution [.revə'lu:ʃən]

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n. 革命,旋转,转数

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exposed [iks'pəuzd]

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diabetes [.daiə'bi:ti:z]

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n. 糖尿病

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