Erika defines moonshots as “highly innovative projects that are very ambitious, that everyone wants to believe in.” She then asks the question, “What happens when the vision is so compelling, and the desire to believe is so strong, that it starts to cloud your judgment about what reality is?”

Oftentimes projects like this do more harm than good because people are hyper-focused on the goal and less how to achieve it, which can lead to damage to the world at large.

Source: https://www.distractify.com/p/erika-cheung-theranos-now