How did Theranos trick so many people when checking the result of a blood test is be extremely simple?

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Unless I’m misunderstanding something about Theranos, the claimed to be able to perform a blood test with just a blood drop, but I would expect anyone to check if their results was the same obtained with a regular blood test. A fake blood test is very simple to generate but almost impossible to get right, so how could people not notice immediately it was all fake?

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The issue with Theranos was they lied about being able to do tests with so little blood. The technology doesn’t exist to do much in the way of blood testing with such a small sample. That is where the questions came up. They misled their investors about their capabilities.

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