This is one of the things that made me a bit angry when reading some of the letters of support to Holmes today, and her own statement. That is, so much of it still carried on with the fantasy that "Holmes was close, but just fell short".

No, she didn't fall short. Her own lust for recognition and power blinded her to the physical realities of what was possible, harming investors, employees and patients in the process.

I'm actually a bit surprised at the outcome - 11 years seems like a fair and justified sentence for what she perpetrated.

They were often running tests on competitors machines. They either passed those results off as coming from their machines, or validated their own results using competing machines.

Their machine could not do what it promised with the amount of blood it claimed to use and was no better than proven machines, and arguably worse as they had lot of maintenance issues even operating at their HQ.