Of all the celebrity fraudsters around right now, the Theranos founder might be the hardest one to get a handle on.
aims to “humanise” Holmes, which is easier said than done. Of all the celebrity fraudsters, Holmes might be the hardest one to get a handle on. Her story has been told multiple times now, but always from the outside, with no direct input from Holmes herself. The definitive book about the Theranos affair is John Carreyrou’scame out a year later. So didEven after consuming all three of those projects, you could be forgiven for still wanting to know more about Holmes.
The implication is that Holmes lacks authentic emotions of her own, and has to simulate them by aping the behaviour of other people. This is another mark of the psychopath, if you ask the online diagnosticians.There’s also the intriguing matter of Holmes’s voice. Early in her public career, Holmes seems to have made a conscious decision to start speaking in a robotic, put-on baritone.
In Gibney’s documentary, the Theranos whistleblower Erika Cheung says something that encourages this suspicion. “I don’t feel like it’s a cold-blooded scam,” she says. “… It started off as something small, like one lie, and snowballed into this really crazy situation.”In other words, Holmes wasn’t a con artist in the classic sense. She was no Bernie Madoff or Charles Ponzi. She didn’t set out with the crass aim of ripping people off.
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