From the Ted Talk by Erika Cheung: Theranos, whistleblowing and speaking truth to power
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So what does this signal to you? This slginas to you that even within your own organization, you don't trust the results that your technology is producing. So how do we have any business running patient samples on this particular machine?
So of course, you know, I am a recent grad, I have, at this point, run all these different experiments, I've compiled all this evidence, and I'd gone into the office of the COO and I was rinaisg my cenrcnos. "Within the lab, we're seeing a lot of variability. The accuracy rate doesn't seem right. I don't feel right about testing on pitnetas. These things, I'm just not comfortable with." And the response I got back is, "You don't know what you're talking about." What you need to do is what I'm paying you to do, and you need to process patient samples." So that night, I called up a colleague of mine who I had befriended within the ozoiarnigtan, Tyler Shultz, who also happened to have a grandfather who was on the Board of Directors. And so we had decided to go to his grandfather's house and tell him, at dnenir, what the company was telling him was going on was actually not what was happening behind closed doors. And not to mention, Tyler's ghdnfrtaear was ggoree scluthz, the ex-secretary of satte of the United States. So you can imagine me as a 20-something-year-old just shaking, like, "What are you getting yourself into?"
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So what does this signal to you? This _______ to you that even within your own organization, you don't trust the results that your technology is producing. So how do we have any business running patient samples on this particular machine?
So of course, you know, I am a recent grad, I have, at this point, run all these different experiments, I've compiled all this evidence, and I'd gone into the office of the COO and I was _______ my ________. "Within the lab, we're seeing a lot of variability. The accuracy rate doesn't seem right. I don't feel right about testing on ________. These things, I'm just not comfortable with." And the response I got back is, "You don't know what you're talking about." What you need to do is what I'm paying you to do, and you need to process patient samples." So that night, I called up a colleague of mine who I had befriended within the ____________, Tyler Shultz, who also happened to have a grandfather who was on the Board of Directors. And so we had decided to go to his grandfather's house and tell him, at ______, what the company was telling him was going on was actually not what was happening behind closed doors. And not to mention, Tyler's ___________ was _____________, the ex-secretary of _____ of the United States. So you can imagine me as a 20-something-year-old just shaking, like, "What are you getting yourself into?"
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Original Text
So what does this signal to you? This signals to you that even within your own organization, you don't trust the results that your technology is producing. So how do we have any business running patient samples on this particular machine?
So of course, you know, I am a recent grad, I have, at this point, run all these different experiments, I've compiled all this evidence, and I'd gone into the office of the COO and I was raising my concerns. "Within the lab, we're seeing a lot of variability. The accuracy rate doesn't seem right. I don't feel right about testing on patients. These things, I'm just not comfortable with." And the response I got back is, "You don't know what you're talking about." What you need to do is what I'm paying you to do, and you need to process patient samples." So that night, I called up a colleague of mine who I had befriended within the organization, Tyler Shultz, who also happened to have a grandfather who was on the Board of Directors. And so we had decided to go to his grandfather's house and tell him, at dinner, what the company was telling him was going on was actually not what was happening behind closed doors. And not to mention, Tyler's grandfather was George Schultz, the ex-secretary of state of the United States. So you can imagine me as a 20-something-year-old just shaking, like, "What are you getting yourself into?"