There's Always Scope For A Trickster
The ongoing trial of disgraced healthcare entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, which is into its second week of jury deliberations in a federal court in San Diego , has been seen as a major exposé of the tech industry in Silicon Valley. Investments and acquisitions “can also replicate one big confidence game in which entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and the tech media pretend to vet one another while, in reality, functioning as cogs in a machine that is designed to not question anything,” to quote the journalist Nick Bilton, whose investigation of Holmes’ company Theranos was one of several that revealed how its impossible promise of using a drop of blood from a fingertip to test for a number of illnesses was leading to misleading diagnoses. Holmes’ is just one of many cases of alleged fraud in justice systems worldwide - the U.S. Department of Justice alone recorded 820 individuals charged between 2018 and 2020. However, it is particularly interesting from a cultural and even a psycho
