Comments by "Harry \x22Nic\x22 Nicholas" (@HarryNicNicholas) on "Theranos Was A Dumpster Fire - But Here's Where It Was Brilliant | Answers With Joe" video.

  1. somewhere back in the early 90's i did a series of animated videos for a company run by two women that claimed to have invented a device that was basically a sealed box you kept in your basement, that you filled up with !something! that was a secret, and it generated electricty that not only powered your house, but you could sell back to the grid. it sounded like a fake, but the two women running things seemed to believe sincerely in the product, claimed to have patents and backing and it sounded more convincing than not, until i made a third video for them that for some reason they didn't like - it was pretty similar to the first two except the graphics were hand drawn instead of clip art. about a year after i gave up chasing them for my fee (!) one of them contacted me and told me the whole thing had gone down the tubes, it was not only fake but a copy of an existing fake that had ended badly, and that she was sorry i'd got involved. there must be dozens of similar scams going on, and i get the feeling the bigger the numbers, the more sucked in people can become.
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