What a nice surprise (insert sarcasm). Naveen Jain, the CEO of Viome and Moon Express, with over 100k followers on Twitter, sent me such a flattering tweet tonight. What else can I do than to make sure the Internet never forgets…. 🙂
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Wow, that’s very toxic. “Scam company” seems kind of self-descriptive given that these commercial testing companies seem to mostly be selling pure marketing (IE: convincing customers they can give them information that doesn’t really exist). I don’t use twitter, but looking at his profile now I see these tweets that explain the outburst:
Jonathan Eisen
Verified account @phylogenomics
50m50 minutes ago
After all – she was just reporting on something I said that you did not like – calling Viome the Theranos of microbiome companies 2/n
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Jonathan Eisen
Verified account @phylogenomics
48m48 minutes ago
But instead of venting at me you went after her – with hatred and misogyny – and now you are misrepresenting what she wrote – your apology is insufficient 3/n
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So incredible and disgusting! Ironically, he is such a scam himself.
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