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Tyler Shultz says the Holmes documentary shows the wrong Theranos machine

The 2015 whistleblower tells Gayle King that the device in Nathan Fielder's film is an unfinished prototype, not the one tested on patients.

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CBS Mornings Story of October 20, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 960,355 views a day, 70 times a normal first day on this channel (13,667).

Theranos whistleblower says he nearly jumped out of his seat watching Elizabeth Holmes documentary

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0:14Gayle King introduces the A24 documentary, its $15 million box office opening and Holmes's fraud conviction.
1:10Shultz contrasts the commanding Holmes he worked under with the "broken woman" he saw on screen.
2:00He argues Holmes knew she was lying, pointing to fabricated revenue claims made to investors.
3:35The film's machine, he says, was an incomplete development version, not the device used on patients.
4:42He says the film aims to win sympathy for Holmes, citing its metaphor about magician David Blaine.
5:54He describes the inaccurate test results on real patients that drove him to blow the whistle.

A scene featuring a Theranos testing machine nearly had Tyler Shultz shouting at the screen. The former insider, who blew the whistle on the company in 2015, watched Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything," and says the machine it shows was "not the device that I worked with 12 hours a day." In his account, it was an incomplete development version, not the flawed device actually used on patients.

Billed on screen as a CBS Mornings first, the interview passed 700,000 views in about 14 hours. The program's regular segments usually draw closer to 14,000 in a whole first day. The comment section moved even faster than the views: hundreds of comments, where a typical segment collects fewer than ten.

Gayle King sets it up with the A24 film's $15 million box office opening and Holmes's fraud conviction. Shultz begins with the woman herself. "The Elizabeth that I knew completely commanded a room," he says. The person on screen, he adds, looked "like a broken woman."

He does not let that image settle the question. Holmes knew she was lying, he argues, and he points to fabricated revenue claims made to investors: a whole web of lies, as he puts it, that would not have been needed otherwise. He also sees intent in the film's tone: "I think that was the goal that Elizabeth had was for you to come away from the movie having sympathy for her."

Many commenters say the segment should have run twice as long, and several wish his perspective had been part of the documentary itself.

Shultz closes with the reason he spoke up in the first place, the inaccurate results Theranos produced: "we were using it on real patients and those real patients were absolutely getting harmed."

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