glennds wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2023 10:57 am
Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 11:21 pm
yankees60 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 7:43 pm
Thanks! Just bought a delivered paperback version for $6.36. Will read it soon after it arrives.
Let us know what you think of it.
The whole story is just so fascinating to me. I often wonder what she's thinking right now.
The way Carreyrou broke the story is a testament to the importance of investigative journalism. The scale of the fraud almost seems proportional to the degree that everyone wanted to believe her story because it was such a good one. Carreyrou was one of very few who asked "what if" and sought proof.
As far as what she's thinking now, I can only speculate, but this behavior is a form of sociopathy. I doubt she feels any remorse or accountability. Total self-interest with no regard for right and wrong would be my guess.
The timing and circumstance of her second child's birth is especially reprehensible, or at the very least grossly irresponsible.
It's interesting how in hindsight the black turtlenecks and fake deep voice are obvious signs of something being awry. But at the time, I like most, thought it was just such a good story of innovation, it was just so easy to believe she was some kind of wunderkind.
After reading this from this excellent article you hold to the same view?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/busi ... rview.html
At her sentencing hearing in November 2022, she was visibly pregnant with her second child. That baby was born in February. In March, Ms. Holmes’s defense team partly cited her “two very young children” in arguing that she should remain free while appealing her fraud conviction. A Daily Mail headline referred to the baby as a “Last-Ditch Bid for New Trial.”
But, as Ms. Holmes explains it, it’s just bad timing (to put it mildly). She is 39. She fell in love with Mr. Evans in 2017. They did not anticipate that she would be indicted. They did not anticipate that she would be sentenced to 11 years. They always wanted a big family.
“If we let how other people might view that, or what impression someone might make of it dictate how we live our lives, then we’ve lost,” Ms. Holmes said. “Finding your person in the middle of all of this and experiencing that love when you’re going through hell is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever experienced.”
Their toddler, William, recently had a 105-degree fever, the couple said. They raced him to the emergency room. The first thing the attending doctor said was, “You look a lot like that horrible woman.” The doctor added, Ms. Holmes said, “I’m sure you’re a better person than she is.” Ms. Holmes continued, “Then he said, ‘Are you Elizabeth Holmes?’ And I said, ‘Yes,’ and he said, ‘I am so sorry,’ and I said, ‘Don’t be, all you know is what you’ve read.’”
By Billy’s father, William L. Evans’s tally, there are “over 67,600,600” web results on Ms. Holmes, all of them negative, compared with “21 million results, many of which are positive” for Osama bin Laden, figures he wrote in a letter to the court. Ms. Holmes’s mother, Noel, said she stopped cold in a Barnes & Noble when she saw her daughter characterized in a book display as a “paranoid sociopath” who is “devoid of conscience.”
“Everybody got on the train that Elizabeth was evil, and it was great copy, and they took it and ran with it,” Ms. Holmes’s father, Christian, said.
