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But journalists’ most stubborn instinct—the one they share with Holmes—is to lean into a good story. It’s the human side of science that attracts readers. Every technical advance must be contextualized with a tale of suffering or triumph. Holmes knew this as well as anyone. She hardly dwelled on how her devices worked—she couldn’t, because they didn’t. Instead, she repeatedly told the world about her fear of needles and of losing loved ones to diseases that might have been caught earlier by a convenient blood test. Of course reporters were taken in. The next entrepreneur to come along and tell a tale like that may also get a sympathetic hearing in the press.
Holmes understood that almost everyone—journalists, investors, patients, doctors—can be swayed by a pat narrative. She’s still trying to get ahead by telling stories. In offering herself up to the Times as a reformed idealist and a wonderful mother, Holmes adds to a story that was started by her partner, Billy Evans. As part of Holmes’s sentencing proceedings last fall, Evans wrote a multipage letter to the judge pleading for mercy, which was accompanied by numerous photos of Holmes posing with animals and children. “She is gullible, overly trusting, and simply naive,” Evans wrote about one of the great corporate hucksters of our era.

How did Elizabeth Holmes use emotions to convince people her device worked? How is Holmes portrayed now by The Times and her current partner? Summarize those points in 150 words or less.<|im_end|>
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Elizabeth Holmes avoided discussing how the devices worked because she knew that they didn't. Instead, she told the world about her fear of needles and how she may have saved loved ones if their ailments had been caught earlier by the blood test that she developed. Holmes knew that journalists, investors, patients, and doctors alike Almost everyone can be swayed by a narrative that pulls at the heartstrings.

Holmes's current partner, Billy Evans, says, "She is gullible, overly trusting, and simply naive." The Times has portrayed Holmes as a person who is now an idealist and a wonderful mother, as if she were not the same person who deceived millions of people with her false claims.<|im_end|>
