Turns out MRI Scanners make great Lie Detectors!

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3542921&page=1



The technology his company uses is called functional magnetic resonance imaging, or FMRI.

"What we have now is a controlled lab experiment, where people commit a crime and try to lie to us and see if we can use imaging results to see what they were lying about," said Mark George, who is running the studies commissioned by Cephos at the Medical University of South Carolina. "Through these studies, we've been pretty good — 90 to 95 percent accuracy rate so far."

"We're looking beyond just the anxiety, what you're doing cognitively when telling a lie. When you're telling a lie, you're overriding a normal response of telling the truth, " said George. "So your brain is putting on a brake and overlearning a response. It's harder to tell a lie then tell the truth, remember what you're lying about. You've created a false way the world is. So we're looking at overworking, inhibiting, multitasking. Those areas are pretty predictive in catching someone when you're lying."

The FMRI technology is still not admissible in court, but there's potentially a huge market for use in situations like libel, slander and fraud where it's one person's word against another, and in employee screening by government agencies.

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Hmmmm, I wonder if we could get a few of our elected 'leaders' to take a slide through the ol' FMRI and take a few questions about nine eleven and a few other odds and ends?

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Scientifically Speaking, 90-95% Isn't Good Enough To *Prove* Lying

Did anyone hook the company spokesman up to the gizmo when he made those claims?