I read his book, which was really good. The disturbing thing to me about it is not that this could happen on the scale of Theranos, or hoodwink so many big names: Henry Kissinger, General Mattis, George Shultz; the list goes on - but that it - or something like it - has happened in many places where I’ve worked over the past 20 years. Multiply that by the number of people who also worked there, and it starts to look more like something real than mere anecdata.<p>I have no doubt that it has happened before and continues to happen.<p>The deceit; the refusal to listen to or pay attention to actual proof; the rewarding of the guilty and the punishment of the innocent; the firing or sidelining of the overly vocal; the hell-bent tunnel vision that believes only in the billion-dollar payoff, even if it destroys the company (or people’s lives), and all the pathological rest.<p>I’m not sure if that says something about humans in general, or maybe even primates, or US society, or all of these.<p>I wonder, too, if the logical voices of dissent so necessary for real progress have been largely silenced by the tyranny of the hashtag, the mob mentality of social media (HN excepted), the attention-deficient multitudes born of television and the Internet, and the power leached away from us by mandatory binding arbitration clauses in our job, lease, rent, and just about any contract in the USA these days?