The letters from Representatives John D. Dingell and Bart Stupak, both Michigan Democrats, said the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its subcommittee on oversight and investigations were investigating "false and misleading statements and the use of celebrity endorsements of prescription medications in direct-to-consumer advertising".
The National Endowment for the Humanities confirmed earlier this week that it would investigate false statements regarding the doctorate, which appeared on grant applications from the academy to the endowment between 2003 and 2013.
This becomes significantly important when investigating false alarms that cannot be verified, nor duplicated under typical inspections.
They may also add significant costs to the process if researchers spend time and money investigating false leads.
This extra work beforehand can save valuable time and resources investigating "false alarms" after the application of quantitative methods.
Bioprospectors must also be careful to scientifically validate local practices if they wish to avoid wasting resources investigating false leads.
Indeed, a recent experiment using fMRI to investigate false memory in a short-delay DRM paradigm identified brain activity consistent with a role for semantic fluency [ 8].
One of the biggest concerns about syndromic surveillance is its potentially low specificity, resulting in use of resources to investigate false alarms (6, 10 ).
However, the cost of screening donations is proportional to the number of donations tested, in addition to the resources expended investigating false alarms.
The ratio of 2 for false positive/true positive was determined by consensus of our infection control team according to the weekly excess workload judged acceptable to investigate false positives, as compared to the work required to investigate true positives.
This paradigm is often used to investigate false memory at the retrieval phase, since subjects demonstrate a high rate of false memories for the critical item across a variety of experimental situations (see [ 13] for a review).
