Brain Scans May Be Used As Lie Detectors (No Lie MRI)

[lovuian]

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That's where I had my brain-scan interrogation. But this lab isn't alone. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have also reported impressive accuracy through brain-scanning recently. California entrepreneur Joel T. Huizenga plans to use that work to start offering lie-detecting services in Philadelphia this July.

His outfit, No Lie MRI Inc., will serve government agencies and "anybody that wants to demonstrate that they're telling the truth," he said.





Both labs use brain-scanning technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI. It's a standard tool for studying the brain, but research into using it to detect lies is still in early stages. Nobody really knows yet whether it will prove more accurate than polygraphs, which measure things like blood pressure and breathing rate to look for emotional signals of lying.

But advocates for fMRI say it has the potential to be more accurate, because it zeros in on the source of lying, the brain, rather than using indirect measures. So it may someday provide lawyers with something polygraphs can't: legal evidence of truth-telling that's widely admissible in court. (Courts generally regard polygraph results as unreliable, and either prohibit such evidence or allow it only if both sides in a case agree to let it in.)

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Could we hook Cheney Bush Libby and Rove and find out about Plame!!!

[tocqueville]

1. doesn't work on freepers

get a brain first, morans...

[orleans]

2. hahaha n/t

[Crunchy Frog]

3. I'd like to see

liberal politicians agree to submit to this test, and challenge repukes to do the same. I'd like to see just how fast the 'pukes would run the other way.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Lie detectors are fundamentally flawed

Because science cannot calculate meaning. Science can only calculate physical reactions that are indexed to meaning. Meaning is itself not a physical phenomenon. This means that whatever is determined as a physical norm applies only to populations, and can never apply to an individual case. For this reason, polygraph technology is inadmissable in a court of law, and for the same reason, any such technology will be inadmissable. Lie detectors simply cannot relate to an individual case (each lie is singular), because a lie is not a scientific phenomenon. Or rather, it is not a phenomenon that can be grasped by the scientific method.

[maddezmom]

5. lockiing

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