An end to torture and lies — for real

[tblue]

The Siemens Magnetom Trio at the University of Pennsylvania is a 10-foot-tall, 14-ton "functional magnetic resonance imaging" machine -- fMRI, for short. It promises to be the most formidable lie detector ever built. By peering directly into our brains, its keepers aim to set a new gold standard for the recognition of honesty in everyone from politicians to criminals to lovers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/29/AR2006102900895_pf.html

If what we're really after is 'truth' and not sadistic pleasure, why not invest in a few of these? Heck, let's test it on Darth & * and see what happens.

[democrank]

1. If we ran Bush and Cheney through this thing

it would start smoldering.

[Auggie]

3. I don't know... they're such polished liars

[Kiouni]

2. now i am usually for

the overuse of potentially harmful medical technology but maybe we should think this through before we make it standard practice. I mean you have to pass a polygraph to join the fbi and those things give off false positives every five minutes what if the g-men started requiring mri interigations?