Is Elizabeth Holmes a Misunderstood Super-Intelligent Victim? | Theranos CEO Sentencing Analysis

This video answers the question: Can I analyze the sentencing of Elizabeth Holmes?

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[maureeningleston]

Saying Elizabeth Holmes is "misunderstood" is like saying Jeffrey Dahmar had an "eating disorder".

[djcastano]

Tried to join the me too movement to get a lighter sentence. Got pregnant to delay sentencing. Married a rich man to assure she’d be rich for the rest of her life. Having baby with rich man for the same reason. Just a classic manipulator.

[Stretesky]

She is not a victim. She is manipulative predator. Denial is the first and most important practice of predators that want to believe they are above the law and refute or absolve any guilt. It is particularly egregious when people who know very well what is wrong and do it anyways. That said, everyone knows abusing people, and position are always wrong. It is why officers turn off their mics and cameras. Authorities teach predators very well.

[freedomfries]

She was a "Strong and Powerful Woman " while running her con . She gets busted and all of the sudden she is just a poor little girl, manipulated by a big bad man.

[SummerLuvr]

Let’s not forget how she orchestrated terrorizing the 2 whistleblowers. She had them followed, scared them, caused them huge financial problems. She knew exactly what she was doing, all along!

[elaineagvent]

She knew exactly what she was doing. Anytime someone covers up suspected wrongdoing that means that person knows exactly what they are doing.

[privard]

She pulled the old "have a baby during bond" trick to try and get sympathy knowing full well that she will miss many important years of it's life. Woman who give birth as a tactic and use baby's as tools disgust me. That rich husband of hers must be a pathetic simp.

[InceRumul]

I think her narcissism was abundantly clear when she first decided - as an undergrad - that the reason the blood test of her dreams didn't exist was that the entire medical community was incapable of producing it.

[katarina]

The worst part of this was the patients whose lab values were erroneous. Health care decisions can be impacted, disorders missed or misdiagnosed, and whether or not to even give a medication or alter the amount can occur with false lab results. That is very dangerous for the patient, and so much worse than rich investors losing money.

[wiseauserious]

The movie let her off the hook in so many ways. It portrayed her as sort of a naive, well intentioned aspirational person. She was a con artist, straight up.

[evilpixiedance]

Come for the mental health analysis, stay for the biting humor. Thank you again, Dr. Grande, for finding the comedy in these cases. You can almost make someone with a personality disorder. bearable.

[elmalifico]

I remember people were describing her as a Chemical Engineering student who dropped out college, but only went for one year. What classes have you taken a year in? English? Chemistry 1? Calculus maybe?

[A.I.A.M.]

Is Elizabeth Holmes a Misunderstood Super-Intelligent Victim???

No she is not.


Thanks for watching!

[bt]

I really feel badly for Ian Gibbons who was actually an honest hardworking good scientist who was driven to commit suicide by the bullying and manipulation of Elizabeth and Sunny. They also terrorized the whistleblowers through using legal heavyweights and stalking/intimidation. I don’t have sympathy for Elizabeth or sunny for doing those things.

[piecebucket]

The name Theranos has always reminded me of Thanatos, the Greek god/personification of Death. Thanatos was son of Nyx (goddess of night) and brother of Hypnos (god of sleep). I often wonder how many people who put their faith in Theranos "blood tests" would have received an early visit from Thanatos himself.

[TheNextFreud]

The blue lighting is symbolic of Dr. Grande's easy-going demeanor. The cacti are symbolic of his dry, prickly sarcasm.

[JaimeWarlock]

My thoughts as an engineer. The product she claimed to be developing required the collaboration of multiple engineers and scientists. Yet, she forced them to work in isolation from each other. This is not the actions of someone trying to innovate, but of a fraudster trying to keep everyone in the dark.

[inlyst]

Poor Elizabeth, how about poor Tyler Schultz and anyone else who stood up to her and she sued them into oblivion and ruined their lives

[klingon]

What’s more narcissistic than getting pregnant twice during a trial that you could go away for a long time.

[josiah]

Most people today have back stories of some sort of abuse or trauma, yet they do not defraud people of millions. Denial and claiming victimhood are always the first reaction when narcissists or psychopaths are held accountable.