How Holmes Managed to Lie to Everyone. Literature Coursework

How Holmes Managed to Lie to Everyone
Ginsberg, L., & Huddleston, T. (2019). The psychology of deception: How Elizabeth Holmes fooled everyone about Theranos for so long. CNBC. Retrieved April 10, 2019, from /2019/03/20/hbos-the-inventor-how-elizabeth-holmes-fooled-people-about-theranos.html
Elizabeth Holmes is a name that elicits a lot of different emotions. Holmes, a Stanford dropout, managed to lie to the entire world about a technology that would revolutionize the medical industry. She had people like Henry Kissinger, Walgreens, and the former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in her corner. Her idea made her popular, and she appeared in a lot of magazines which further enhanced her popularity. However, the question that everyone is asking themselves is how she managed to fool everyone and get away with it for years. In their article, Ginsberg and Huddleston involve Dan Ariely who had interacted with Holmes and got to understand that Holmes believed in what she was doing. For Theranos, the issue of integrity started with the CEO and proceeded to the president with both set to face trial and could face up to 20 years if convicted.
One of the issues that come up from the article is the fact that Holmes believed her lies. Apparently, Holmes had reached a point where she believed in what she was doing, and it was thus easy to get everyone else to believe in her idea. The article reveals that Holmes was so convinced of her idea that when a documentary was being made regarding the issue, she wanted it to focus on her idea and not her lies. Being sold to one’s lie was the ca...