I&#x27;m not outraged by Theranos, but I do feel that stuff like this makes it all the harder for <i>legitimate</i> science to get investment, by &quot;raising the bar&quot; on the number of stupid, oversimplified, breathless claims you need to make to get noticed.<p>Real science is too messy to be able to compete with a press release from a sufficiently motivated huckster -- and investors love a huckster in lab coat.