Theranos conducted 'giant, unauthorized medical experiment' in Arizona
TUCSON -- Arizona "definitely" bears a portion of the blame for the Theranos blood-testing debacle, the author of a new book about the disgraced Silicon Valley startup says.
"The way in which they welcomed Theranos with open arms and did very little vetting of what the Theranos proposition was certainly contributed to putting Arizona patients in harm's way," said John Carreyrou, the Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the Theranos story and authored the newly released book, "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" (Knopf Publishing Group).
"Arizona is where this giant, unauthorized medical experiment took place," Carreyrou said in a phone interview Thursday. "There's no sugar-coating it. It was a giant, unauthorized medical experiment that put tens of thousands of people's health in jeopardy."
Arizona was "ground zero" for Theranos, as the place where the blood-testing startup rolled out its faulty technology and tested human samples, Carreyrou said.
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