Taking Out the Trash Day on the West Wing

The friday effect is when companies and even governments take advantage of our inattention. The goal is to avoid unflattering media coverage that might negatively impact a company's stock price. But could somethng as important as drug safety alert be a victim of the friday effect? Researcher louis tiestra started crunching the numbers, and found there was a suspicious pattern: alerts were more like to happen on fridays than any other day of the week at all.