Promise vs Reality
Documented Lies
Public commitments that were later broken, quietly abandoned, or contradicted on the record. Each entry pairs the promise — with its primary source — against the documented violations that followed.
Theranos
Violated
Catastrophic
Primary evidence
Financial
Holmes: Theranos can run hundreds of tests on a finger-prick of blood
Said:
“We've made it possible to run any combination of tests, including sets of follow-on tests, very quickly, all from a single micro-sample. … Tests run on samples as small as a few drops of blood, taken from a tiny finge…”
Promised 2014-09-08
Audience: Investors
2 sourced violations
Most recent breach 2022-11-18
Goblin House