Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Theranos: BUSTED!" video.

  1. This should frighten us all, on the level of our plutoc-ratic power. The rich in this country can ignore scientific basics to deduce at minimal level of incredulity on something like this. I'm not a bio-scientist. But even I was thinking, wait... you need sufficient quantities to evaluate certain data in any substance... for blood... to discern a reliable statistical analysis of cholesterol, to lymphocyte levels, to platelet counts, etc. require a large enough statistical sample to eliminate the potential for getting a false count. If you take a sample that is too small and in an area of small infection, you're likely to get a high lymphocyte reading. Cholesterol count requires centrifuge separation of the various substances in the blood. If you don't have enough blood to do this... you can't rely on the reading. Small guess-estimate readers that provide an okay diagnostic, are followed up by more statistically sound tests to discern if readings were accurate with a larger sample. Someone showing anemia on a simple small blood test, will have a follow up blood check with larger blood samples, to eliminate false statistical sample size. So large flags should have been immediately warn anyone knowing just basic statistics in applied sciences. "Wait.... how can you use such a small sample size to discern anything? And wouldn't you then need larger sample sizes anyway if such a test were to provide results that are out of normal ranges? How is this even possible when a normal blood test, or water test, or milk analysis or any small basic preliminary small sample test if it gives potentially bad readings, then require larger more in depth sample sizes to confirm it?" I mean sample size is important in terms of statistics for a variety of reasons... and that should always send up red flags on potential effectiveness. The level of stupidity in this country is a reflection of the powers that be... and the powers that be are akin to hereditary rule of nobility and monarchs of centuries prior to our own. In our case, it's dynastic money ruling elites. None are very educated; just enough to be carnival barkers. And many now, that was their ticket to dynasty: entertainers; in the US sport coaches are among the highest paid employee in most states in the country. Plutocracy is as dangerous as absolute monarchy or nobility. The level if dumb from such forces of power will be its own undoing and the misery of everyone else living in it.
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