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Doesn't real science ... publish real papers? Or at least file patents. It's the secret sauce that's so suspcious. To a skeptical outsider, it whiffs of e-Cat.



Yeah, but investors don't often read papers...let alone have the expertise to know if they're any good. It's pretty common for investors to commit money based on good spin and social proof. Theranos has excelled at both.




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