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WIRED revisits the doubts behind its 2014 Elizabeth Holmes interview

Former editor Adam Rogers recalls Theranos’s lack of published peer-reviewed data; interviewer Caitlin Roper believes the Q&A helped promote Holmes.

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“There’s a lot of weird things about her. She was speaking in this strange, low voice. She was wearing a Steve Jobs outfit—black turtleneck. She seemed like she was very precisely trying to project something.” - Caitlin Roper, a WIRED editor at the time and now Executive Producer for Scripted Film and TV at the New York Times

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Former WIRED editor Adam Rogers recalls Theranos had published no peer-reviewed data before the March 2014 Holmes Q&A. Caitlin Roper says she could not follow her sample; Rogers writes that the Theranos booth Holmes showed her at a Palo Alto Walgreens was not in service during that visit. Her results matched a similar recent panel, Roper says, though Rogers says how Theranos did that is impossible to know. Roper believes the story helped promote Holmes.

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