{"id":178090,"date":"2019-03-11T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/11\/they-just-cant-let-a-white-stanford-dropout-fail-can-they\/"},"modified":"2019-03-11T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T23:12:00","slug":"they-just-cant-let-a-white-stanford-dropout-fail-can-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/11\/they-just-cant-let-a-white-stanford-dropout-fail-can-they\/","title":{"rendered":"They Just Can&#8217;t Let a White Stanford Dropout Fail, Can They?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bloomberg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcbridesg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mcbridesg<\/a> asked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimDraper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TimDraper<\/a> if he\u2019d back Elizabeth Holmes again:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d back her as chief science officer, not CEO. Good question.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DJqguX9wGA\">pic.twitter.com\/DJqguX9wGA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sam Dean  \ud83e\udd85 (@SamAugustDean) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamAugustDean\/status\/1103808790158237696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously?<\/p>\n<p>She defrauded people out of billions on a scheme that could never have worked.<\/p>\n<p>At the core of this scheme was her completely nonsensical pseudoscientific ideas.<\/p>\n<p>And this guy things that she should be in charge of science at a startup?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s like putting Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in charge of your evolutionary biology department.<\/p>\n<p>Well, she has a career as a poster child for white privilege, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg\u2019s @mcbridesg asked @TimDraper if he\u2019d back Elizabeth Holmes again: \u201cI\u2019d back her as chief science officer, not CEO. Good question.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/DJqguX9wGA &mdash; Sam Dean \ud83e\udd85 (@SamAugustDean) March 8, 2019 Seriously? She defrauded people out of billions on a scheme that could never have worked. At the core of this scheme was her completely nonsensical &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,368,527,406],"class_list":["post-178090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-junk-science","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}