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Saturday, 3 November 2018

Medlab – just a little prick

Messing about on Twitter in between playing games as I waited fruitlessly for DHL to show up with an urgent package, may they rot in a cold rainy Hell with no available sustenance other than soggy supermarket sandwiches and Kia-Ora fruit drinks (9-5 only, closed on Sundays)… Hang on, I got distracted there. So, fuck DHL for wasting my entire day, but at least Twitter came up with some magnificent jiggeryfuckery from some Spawn of Shkreli. This lot, in fact: Now, of all the companies worldwide calling themselves Medlab – and they are legion – this appears to be the only one flogging an “at-home finger prick blood test”. My initial reaction was “live blood analysis scammers”. I was wrong. It’s a completely different kind of scam. You may have seen, at the pharmacy, DIY test kits for anything from pregnancy (fair enough) to hypothyroidism to a few pathologies that … Continue reading

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