Steven Novella

That's kind of, you can get away with that, right?

And whether you think it's overhyped or not, I don't think anyone's going to be sued for fraud for saying that.

as long as it's like a hope and not a promise.

We're not saying you have it now when you don't.

But in both cases, in both cases, that's not what they did.

So in Holmes, she, like her company was getting blood from patients claiming that her new technology was running the lab tests.

Oh, wow.

When she, the blood was being sent down to a regular lab.

Right, so if you're doing one thing while claiming you're doing another.

So this is pretty much the exact analogy.

It's like, this is a solid-state battery when it's just a lithium.

It's the old technology, and you're just putting a new package on it and claiming it's a new technology when it isn't.

So...

Yeah, it's just straight up lying.

Right.

But I also want to take the opportunity to remind people that we called this exactly correct.

And there's a reason for that.

Because when you apply a reasonable skeptical filter, the red flags of fraud were all there.

And it's not just a bias.

They are highly predictive.