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[BROKEN PROMISES] LEDGER
// 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.

// Aggregate public harm across 2 assessed promises
$5 billionestimated public cost
87M peopleaffected
1 documented promise
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 00:00:00+00 Audience · Investors 2 sourced violations Latest breach 2022-11-18 00:00:00+00
Source The New Yorker, 'Blood, Simpler', 15 December 2014 ↗