Brain Scans May Be Used As Lie Detectors

[tocqueville]

By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer
42 minutes ago

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Picture this: Your boss is threatening to fire you because he thinks you stole company property. He doesn't believe your denials. Your lawyer suggests you deny it one more time — in a brain scanner that will show you're telling the truth.

Wacky? Science fiction? It might happen this summer.

Just the other day I lay flat on my back as a scanner probed the tiniest crevices of my brain and a computer screen asked, "Did you take the watch?"

The lab I was visiting recently reported catching lies with 90 percent accuracy. And an entrepreneur in Massachusetts is hoping to commercialize the system in the coming months.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060129/ap_on_sc/my_lying_brain

questions : will that work on freepers ? you know, get a brain, moran...

[Lindacooks]

1. Boy, that really seems like invasion of privacy.

I'm sure chimpy et al would love to get their hands on that technology. To use on other people, of course.

[NMMNG]

2. Yes, but would they like the possibility that it could be turned on them?

As it should be....