They did hire a highly-qualified scientist: Ian Gibbons.<p>&gt; Rochelle Gibbons, whose biochemist husband, Ian, was hired by Holmes in 2005, confessed to the reporter that her husband “told me nothing was working.” Ian Gibbons committed suicide in May 2013.<p>Source: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vanityfair.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-report" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vanityfair.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;theranos-founder-eliz...</a>