Let’s be real: even with the best intentions, AI systems can reflect our own unconscious biases. As Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky famously demonstrated in their groundbreaking work on Prospect Theory, humans are prone to cognitive biases that influence our…
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Kyowa Pharma Reveals Fudged Accelerated Stability Test of Mestinon
Kyowa Pharmaceutical Industry had conducted improper accelerated stability testing when filing for a partial change of its myasthenia gravis drug Mestinon (pyridostigmine bromide) back in 2009, it has been found out. The misconduct took place in a research center in…
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